The Practice focused on the law firm of Robert Donnell and Associates (later becoming Donnell, Young, Dole, __AMPERSAND__ Frutt, and ultimately Young, Frutt, __AMPERSAND__ Berluti). Plots typically featured the firm__APOS__s involvement in various high-profile criminal and civil cases that often mirrored current events at the time of the episodes__APOS__ initial broadcast. Conflict between legal ethics and personal morality was a recurring theme.