Laura Kelly (Debra Winger), an attorney representing performance artist Chelsea Deardon (Daryl Hannah), seeks out Logan to discuss her client's case.

Soon after, Forrester drops all charges against Chelsea after swapping the Deardon painting for a Picasso with art gallery curator Victor Taft (Terence Stamp).

Taft later shows Logan and Kelly the swapped Deardon painting, which does not have an inscription to Chelsea written on the back as she claims.

Shortly after, police detective Cavanaugh (Brian Dennehy), who investigated the Deardon fire, provides Kelly with proof that the supposedly lost paintings still exist and says that Chelsea's father was murdered.

During her murder trial, Chelsea experiences a flashback memory and openly accuses Forrester of being involved in her father's death.

Logan and Kelly discover Forrester's dead body and find Chelsea hiding at the scene, though she proclaims her innocence.

Logan goes to the police department to find Cavanaugh while Kelly and Chelsea head to Taft's gallery where his memorial service is in progress.

At the Taft Gallery, Brock forces Kelly and Chelsea to break open a large hollow sculpture where Sebastian Deardon's missing canvases, now estimated to be worth $20 million, are hidden.

Reitman had long been interested in doing something set in the art world, with lawyers as protagonists "because they are our contemporary hired guns, involved in every aspect of modern life.

"[2] The film was originally meant to be a vehicle for Dustin Hoffman and Bill Murray, the latter a CAA client, and was written as a buddy movie.

Ivan Reitman met with Robert Redford, another CAA client, about another project, and mentioned Legal Eagles.

Redford expressed interest in doing a romantic comedy, so Reitman decided to rework it as a Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn-type movie.

The soundtrack album was released by MCA Records, featuring selections from the score re-recorded in England under the composer's baton, and the songs "Good Lovin'" by The Rascals, "Magic Carpet Ride" by Steppenwolf, and Daryl Hannah's "Put Out The Fire" (which she performs onscreen).