Tensions between Leon and Chuck escalate when they learn they are representing opposing sides in a land-development dispute.

Chuck's latest get-rich-quick scheme ends disastrously when he is accused of conflict of interest and charged with fraud. Olivia and Gloria expose a puppy mill.

Carrie defends her young cousin Ricky, before learning that he has been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic.

Leon's client wants to stay with his aboriginal foster parents, but his caseworker argues that their ancient beliefs endanger his life.

Chuck's client, a 15-year-old model, becomes infatuated with him; Leon helps a woman fighting to enforce her sister's living will; Carrie learns of Olivia's affair with Chuck.

Carrie endangers her relationship with Nick when she proves that his father figure is a crooked cop; Leon represents an adoptive mother in a custody case.

Chuck and Olivia try to help a young Mennonite who's been swindled out of millions of dollars; Leon is outraged over the city's treatment of the homeless.

Carrie's client, a young basketball star facing drug charges, refuses to tell her the truth; sparks fly between Chuck and Olivia; Leon negotiates custody of a violin in a divorce settlement.

On a challenge, Olivia and Carrie swap cases, with unexpected results; Chuck moves in with Leon after he and Lisa split up.

Leon is shocked and dismayed at Carrie's and Chuck's ignorance and intolerance when he represents an old friend with AIDS.

Carrie struggles with her personal and legal ethics while defending a religious fanatic in a murder case; Leon negotiates an unusual sentence for a wealthy businesswoman.

Leon represents a radical environmentalist intent on saving a forest from destruction; Carrie sees another side of Nick; Lisa refuses to play the "corporate wife" for Chuck.

Carrie represents a young man charged with criminal negligence in the death of his morbid school friend; Olivia wants to hide a client's previous sports injury in a worker's compensation case.

Chuck's client needs help acquiring funding for condos; Olivia's client is a wheelchair-bound actor who was rejected for a handicapped role in a TV commercial.

Leon is horrified when a TV newscaster names on-air a young offender he once represented, which is illegal.

A judge Carrie has previously accused of racism hires her to defend him on a murder charge. A student charges Leon with sexual harassment.

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Chuck finds himself at odds with his partners and his wife when he represents the head of an anti-abortion group who has caused a woman to miscarry during a demonstration outside an abortion clinic.

Leon is asked to defend an American purse snatcher charged with murder in Florida, where he may face the electric chair.

Angry about the suspicious shooting death of his brother by a prison guard, a fellow inmate seeks advice from Carrie Barr; Olivia Novak joins the firm.