A man awakes from a five year coma and learns that his wife has left him and he has lost his business, so Eli tries to help him get his life back. Meanwhile, Jordan defends an old friend in a discrimination lawsuit against another of the same ethnicity.

Eli must make a hard choice at his disbarment hearing, Taylor and Patti clear some air, and Keith gets his first taste of life in a big law firm when he and Matt are assigned a star athlete's case who the district attorney wants to make an example of.