Bobby Donnell (Dylan McDermott) represents a dentist accused of murdering one of his patients; Ellenor Fruett (Camryn Manheim) goes out to dinner with George Vogelman. Inside the office complex, the attorneys prepare Henry Olson, a dentist, for an upcoming hearing. Moments after Bobby, Lindsay Dole (Kelli Williams), Jimmy Berluti (Michael Badalucco) and Olson exit the firm, George Vogelman enters. He approaches Ellenor and asks for her help regarding a potential legal situation. It seems that his condo association evicted him on grounds of moral turpitude. In the mind of his neighbors, he is guilty of murdering Susan Robin, even though a jury found otherwise. He must vacate his dwelling in thirty days. Ellenor offers her assistance.

Bobby gets a murderer off on a technicality when the arresting officer illegally searches the car and finds a corpse. Jimmy urges Henry Olson to come forward with what he saw, to try to clear him of murder. When Olson refuses, Jimmy breaks his confidence. Lindsay tells Helen that she’s moving out so that she can move in with Bobby. Ellenor suggests that she move in with Helen.

Lucy finds an envelope containing a picture of a nun (from the neckline down), holding a Boston Herald, and the paper is dated the day before. This raises suspicions that Lindsay’s attacker is alive, and getting bolder. And has easy access into the office. Jimmy also fears his apartment has been broken into. Rebecca defends Ronald Vega, a young man who confessed to a hit and run accident. Vega recants his confession after the woman who was hit, dies from her injuries.

Bobby's old mentor, Raymond Oz, calls on Bobby to represent him when his wife tries to have him declared incompetent. Bobby has reservations after observing Oz in a clearly disturbed state of mind. Eugene co-counsels for an incompetent lawyer who's never won a jury trial. Ellenor sinks into depression in the aftermath of the Vogelman affair. Eugene meets the world's worst attorney, Harland Bassett for the first time and has to help him with a case

The legendary Raymond Oz works on what will likely be his last case, defending himself for the murder of his wife. Oz works to secure his freedom, as well as his legacy. Bobby and Lindsay stay on as co-council. Bobby urges Oz to change his plea to not guilty due to insanity.

Rebecca and Eugene defend Jan Carlson who is accused of killing her mother. Carlson claims she suffers from flashbacks involving child molestation by her father and that her mother knew. Carlson’s sister claims she was not molested. Lindsay and Bobby argue over wedding dresses.

Jimmy represents Keating for murdering her rapist. It turns out to be an uphill fight when Keating refuses to say she was temporarily insane at the time. Lucy accuses her dentist, who also happens to be Bobby’s cousin, of sexual battery. When the dentist seeks out Bobby for legal counsel, Lucy becomes more frustrated when it appears that Bobby is willing to defend him.

Richard Bay salivates at the prospect of going after Eugene’s son Kendall, his mother’s lover is found dead in her bed. Ellenor is the attorney of record for Kendall. Lindsay tries the petition of Walter The Hummer Arens, a man who was found not guilty of five murders by reason of insanity. The five victims were all woman, and were stabbed. Arens spent 20 years in a mental facility, and petitions to be let out, claiming he is cured.

Ellenor takes on Richard Bay in a case wherein a little old lady is accused of attempting to run over her husband in her car. Bay and Ellenor clash both in and out of court. Jimmy evaluates his relationship with Judge Kittleson when he represents an old girlfriend in a suit regarding the sale of reproductive eggs.

Tempers flare over a particularly tough case. Bobby defends old client, drug dealer Eddie wick against the murder of an addict. Eddie claims it is self-defense. D.A. Helen brings the coroner to testify that it wasn't. The coroner's testimony is damaged by prior odd behavior. Eddie attacks Helen to try to force the judge into a mistrial. Bobby & Swackheim nearly come to blows. Each of the participants, Bobby, Helen & Swackheim, expresses their outrage with the legal system.

Lindsay sues a cigar company for breaking up a friend's marriage. She alleges that the husband's addiction was the deciding factor in the divorce. Rebecca gives legal help to her ex-boyfriend and Boston police officer Armstrong of murder. Armstrong shot and killed a teenage boy in a grocery store claiming he saw a gun. The cashier says otherwise.

Lindsay takes the firm to Los Angeles to defend an acquaintance who's on trial for murdering his on-line girlfriend. As evidence mounts against their client, Bobby and the rest deal with a controlling judge, an antagonistic detective and the victim's sister, a nun with issues.

Ellenor defends a teenager with a low I.Q. who is accused of bludgeoning a boy to death; Bobby alleges that Gamble extracted a confession from a young murder suspect using the boy’s detective father.

In Los Angeles, the increasingly desperate attorneys consider resorting to "Plan B" as they defend Dennis Mills against charges that he murdered a woman he met on the Internet.

Berluti fights to win the release of a man he believes was wrongly convicted; Eugene and Rebecca represent a woman whose husband died while undergoing liposuction surgery.

Bobby is kidnapped by a disgruntled former client who served twelve years in prison for a double homicide he did not commit.

Ellenor defends a 'slow' teenager accused of killing a younger boy. A witness comes forward claiming to have information exonerating her client, but Ellenor suspects he's lying. Helen calls in a police officer when his son is under suspicion in a homicide. Representing the accused, Bobby argues the officer was acting as an agent of the court, not a father.

Bobby represents a man who shot his terminally ill wife in the head; Ellenor searches for evidence that led to the conviction of a man facing execution on death row.

The attorneys attempt to compel a federal circuit court to order a D.N.A. test of evidence used to convict Stuart Donovan; complications ensue when an elderly man marries an Alzheimer’s sufferer.

The lawyers hope that newly discovered evidence will keep Stuart Donovan from being executed.

Eugene and Lindsay represent a man who claims he raped—but did not murder—a dead woman he found in a dumpster; Berluti represents an employer who exposed one of his employees as having the AIDS virus.

The attorneys defend a deaf woman who avenged her young daughter’s rape and murder by shooting the perpetrator; Bobby and Lindsay make final plans to be wed.