The Guardian

After a fugitive client dies from a drug overdose at his house, the only thing standing between Nick and prison is the testimony of the dead woman's eleven-year-old daughter.

Nick learns of an oversight that could help a teenage killer's efforts to avoid being tried as an adult.

The county's efforts to buy a cemetery exposes Burton's responsibility for a ill-fated abortion fifty-years ago.

His grandmother's death at the hands of a nurse who's confessed to murder forces James to leave Fallin & Fallin; Nick tries helping a difficult eleven-year-old boy find a family to adopt him.

A prostitution sting jeopardizes Alvin's position at the clinic; Nick suspects a drug addicted mom of poisoning her son for the sake of a lawsuit.

While under pressure to execute a merger for a longtime client, Nick must find a missing girl whose bone marrow can save her ailing brother's life.

Nick encourages a drug-addicted dad to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit in order to give his children and their foster parents some money.

Kinky sexual practices lead Lulu's college roommate and her husband to be suspects in their daughter's murder.

While trying to complete an important merger for his dad, Nick must also pinch hit at the clinic when Alvin starts drinking again.

Nick represents the a teenage mom whose father is accused of murdering his terminally ill wife; the death of a patient in the operating room exposes Lulu's husband's a long-kept secret.

A teenaged client is severely wounded when he intervenes to help save Nick's life.

As the prospect of being stalked terrifies Lulu, Nick looks to protect a small boy from an abusive parent.

Lulu's mom turns to Nick when she relocates her business to Pittsburgh and wants her daughter to join her.

Nick argues for a transvestite's custody of a boy he's raised as his own for nine years; Jake falls for a drug addict.

Nick enlists Lulu in the test of a tracking device to help parents keep tabs on their children.

The upcoming wedding of Nick's ex-girlfriend exposes her fiancée's shady past.

The accident that has Lulu fighting for her life teams Nick with the autistic child boy of the other car's driver.

As Burton defends a police officer in an unprovoked shooting, Nick's probation comes under investigation as he tries to decide which of three teenage clients he will save from being sent to a psychiatric hospital.

As Nick and Burton help an ex-con regain custody of his son and resume his boxing career, Lulu and Jake pursue a lawsuit on behalf of a teenage girl who was caught performing a sex act on board a school bus.

As they square off in court over the city's efforts to condemn a church property, Nick and Lulu carry on a clandestine sexual affair in the most unusual places.

Burton presses charges after his teenaged nephew attempts to rape Shannon.

As Nick and Burton square off over the hiring of a new partner, a new client's custody case leads James to conclude that he beat up the wrong man in retaliation for his nephew Levi's murder.

As Nick struggles with the possibility of Lulu leaving and James wrestles with his guilt over having beaten the wrong man, Burton is forced into a custody battle with Shannon's estranged father.