Wyler builds the story around the characters in the workplace, both workers and clients, before introducing the plot. By showing a number of clients interacting with the hotshot lawyer, from important politicians ringing him up for advise to his doing a favor for his former neighborhood pushcart lady whose son (Vincent Sherman), he knew as a baby, was clubbed hard on the kop and arrested for making a radical speech at Union Square. It also shows him acting in a dubious moral way, as he bilks the rich clients by padding their bills while he cuts his fees for the poor as if he were a modern day Robin Hood. He also engages in insider trading that would make Martha Stewart kvell with envy. His office staff consists of his brilliant lonely heart law clerk Weinberg and his super-efficient and loyal secretary Miss ‘Rexy’ Gordon (Bebe Daniels), who has crush on him that he doesn’t even notice. For comic relief there’s the colorful switchboard operator (Isabel Jewell), who endearingly changes tones at the drop of a hat when talking either with the clients or friends. Charlie McFadden (John Hammond Dailey) was a professional criminal, who was saved by George and hired to do private eye work for the firm. It’s McFadden who comes through to save the day when George is faced with the biggest crisis in his life, as one of those Silk Stocking lawyers (Elmer H. Brown) has the goods on him for providing a phony alibi but has to drop those charges when McFadden comes up with some dirt on him.