William Holt is the heir apparent to the top job at Chicago-based Holt Enterprises upon his father Jim Holt's imminent retirement. Will has coasted through life on his charm with others often having to clean up his messes, that task generally relegated to his unofficial assistant, Lyle, unofficial as he is a Holt employee with no official title. Worried about leaving the company in Will's hands, Jim has posted a position for a lawyer to shadow Will in handling any of those messes of a legal nature. It is in this capacity that Will meets lawyer Annie Park, who specializes in family law. While Will believed Annie came to the Holt building for the job, she really came to have it out with him as Holt Enterprises, in their latest such redevelopment, is tearing down the building where her adoptive parents, Gene and Pat Park, have long had their diner, the Starlight, the eviction effective for the new year in a few weeks. Not wanting a lawyer to shadow him, Will strikes a deal with Annie: she pretend to be his lawyer for a week until Christmas just as a body to show Jim while Will goes on with his regular business, in return for Will kiboshing the building demolition and associated evictions. It is in that lawyer role for Will that Annie unexpectedly gets roped into organizing a high end sit down dinner Christmas fundraiser to get Will out of one of those legal messes, something that she has no experience in doing. Also roped into helping Annie with the fundraiser is Will. In spending time together, Annie and Will see a different side of the other as they start to fall for each other. That may all change if Will is unable to fulfill his end of their original agreement, something that would take Will to convince Jim. 译文(2): 威廉 · 霍尔特是总部位于芝加哥的霍尔特企业最高职位的继承人，他的父亲吉姆 · 霍尔特即将退{资源屯-ziyuantun.com}。威尔的一生都靠他的魅力度过，其他人经常不得不帮他收拾烂摊子，这项工作通常交给他的非官方助理莱尔，因为他是霍尔特公司的一名没有正式头衔的雇员。由于担{Ziyuantun.Com}心把公司交给威尔管理，吉姆已经安排了一个律师的职位，在处理法律方面的任何麻烦事时跟随威尔。威尔正是以这种身份会见了专门研究家庭法的安妮 · 帕克律师。威尔相信安妮来霍尔特大楼是为了这份工作，但她真的和他摊牌了，因为霍尔特企业在最新的重建项目中，正在拆除她的养父母吉恩和帕特 · 帕克(Gene and Pat Park)一直开着他们的餐馆“星光”(Starlight)的大楼，几周后就要开始新的一年的驱逐行动。威尔不想让律师跟着他，于是和安妮达成了一个协议: 在圣诞节之前的一个星期里，她假装是他的律师，只是在威尔继续他的日常生意的时候给吉姆看一具尸体，作为威尔反对拆除大楼和相关驱逐的回报。正是在扮演威尔的律师角色时，安妮出人意料地被迫组织了一场高端的圣诞晚宴筹款活动，以帮助威尔摆脱那些法律上的麻烦，而她在这方面毫无经验。威尔也被拉去帮助安妮筹集资金。在一起的时候，安妮和威尔看到了对方的另一面当他们开始爱上对方的时候。如果威尔无法履行他们最初的协议，这一切都可能改变，这需要威尔去说服吉姆。
