BOSTON LEGAL revolves around the Boston litigation law firm of Crane Poole & Schmidt in particular two eccentric and flawed attorneys Alan Shore and Denny Crane. Shore an unscrupulous and wily ambulance chaser and womanizer (played with sly charm by James Spader) finds an uneasy alliance with Crane a bombastic self-aggrandizing and occasionally batty elder lawyer (William Shatner in an Emmy-winning performance). Despite their ethical and emotional deficiencies Shore and Crane usually find themselves fighting on the right side as they take up cases that no one else is willing to touch.