For the Defense Author:Williams Harrington Cosima Bernardin, poor-little-rich-girl lawyer and daughter of one of the country's richest bankers, is a junior partner in a prominent New York law office. But she's judged to be too pushy, and the small-minded senior members of the firm try to teach her a lesson by taking away her major client. She quits in a huff, starts her own practice and,... more » mainly because of her family's connections, attracts several big clients, including a rock star and a movie idol. Cosima's biggest challenge is the case of a refugee Russian ballerina who is under threat of deportation by the State Department, and she finds herself pitted against both her former law firm and some nasty fundamentalist red-baiters.« less