The Good Wife stars Emmy award winner Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, a defense attorney who graduated top of her class from Georgetown University. She gives up her career to bring up her children and support her politician husband, played by Chris Noth. When he becomes involved in a very public sex and corruption scandal, culminating in him being sent to jail, Alicia goes back to work at a prestigious Chicago law firm. She joins her law school classmate Will Gardner (Josh Charles), who is now a partner at the firm. As a junior associate, she has to compete with the firm's new recruits, who are all in their twenties, at the same time as she continues to raise her two teenage children. The Good Wife is a production of CBS Television Studios and Scott Free Productions. Executive Producers include Tony and Ridley Scott.