New faces are at Crane Poole and Schmidt. Katie Lloyd joins the firm straight from law school and her first case has her defendant accused of rape and murder; the assistant D.A. for the case is Brad Chase. Carl Sack takes over the litigation department from Paul Lewiston and he is less than impressed with the attorneys. Clarence defends Clarice entering a singing contest when Carl Sack demands he drop from the competition.

Carl and Denny have a bet on whether or not Carl can win a case where his defendant is accused of cock fighting. Alan represents a teenager suing her school for its abstinence-only sex education program after she contracts HIV. Katie and Jerry help the widow of the lawyer they replaced on the Joseph Washington case sue her husband's therapist for making his metal state worse not better.