Shin Yi-rang is not the lawyer who commands a room. Timid, a little clumsy, the kind of person who quietly slips through the cracks of a profession that rewards confidence above almost everything else. He opens his own practice in a building nobody else wanted a former shaman's temple and that turns out to have its own very specific set of complications. He starts seeing ghosts. Worse, they can see him back. And they have opinions, grievances, unfinished business, and absolutely no intention of leaving him alone about any of it.

Phantom Lawyer is a courtroom drama and a ghost story and something warmer than either label suggests. What Yi-rang and Na-hyun discover, almost accidentally, is that helping the dead find peace has a way of doing the same thing for the living.