TV-PG
S1 • E1
Kathleen's partner has a nervous breakdown and she is forced to handle all of her cases, one which includes a suspected thief who turns out to be a murderer.
S1 • E2
Kathleen clears Anthony of murder charges but also clears Jerome of theft charges.
S1 • E3
Kathleen and Danny deal with Patrick's fighting at school while Kathleen uses her father's arrest for another bar fight to help prove her point to Patrick.
S1 • E4
Kathleen temporarily harbors an innocent fugitive, which drives Danny to seek retaliation through his power as the district attorney.
S1 • E5
Kathleen has less than a day to get a motion approved to have a falsely accused client released to attend his mother's funeral.
S1 • E6
A client threatens Kathleen's son to keep her from revealing his plans to kill the one person who could put him away for assault; drug charges against a mobster's daughter hint at a dirty deal within Dan's office; and Will is faced with putting a defendant on the stand knowing that she may lie about her husband's fatal postcoital mishap.
S1 • E7
Kathleen defends a lonely prison guard who is charged with having sex with an inmate.
S1 • E8
Kathleen witnesses a robbery and the assailant turns out to be a client she's defending in another case.
S1 • E9
Kathleen continues to fight to keep a kid out of an adult rehabilitation facility for the accidental murder of another kid.
S1 • E10
Kathleen is forced to defend a rapist whose main evidence can easily be thrown out of court.
S1 • E11
Kathleen defends a drug addict falsely accused of killing a cop.
S1 • E12
Will tries to stop a man from serving jail time for a bogus possession charge just to spite his unfaithful rabbi father; Kathleen scores an unusual first date, thanks to her dim diamond-thief client, while another case has her backing up a man intent on serving as his own lawyer.
S1 • E13
A teen on trial for the murder of her mom's abusive lover has Kathleen rethinking the case---and who did the killing; Will's repeat offender makes an insane attempt to avoid jail time by attacking his own lawyer during sentencing; and Judge Ripley decides to lay down the law with one of City Hall's most available attorneys.
S1 • E14
A dying man's confession gives Kathleen what she needs to get a convicted rapist a new trial; Will and Erin clash in court over a wife charged with assaulting her husband with a frozen steak; and a Maguire & Froman client takes a dramatic leap of faith to avoid a certain prison sentence.
S1 • E15
Kathleen races to get her wrongfully convicted client a new trial after finding that evidence may have been swept under the rug. Meanwhile, the owner of escort service recruits Maguire & Froman to clear her name in a prostitution case that could ruin her career - and her clients; and Will defends a high-school teacher accused of sexually molesting a student, who may have a darker secret to protect.
S1 • E16
Dan plays dirty after learning that Kathleen will be defending a madam in Ripley's courtroom; Will and Lisa hash out the ins and outs of their affair while trapped in a City Hall elevator; a law student derails his future with an unlawful protest tactic against a professor.
S1 • E17
Dan's office plays hardball with Maguire & Froman after Kathleen testifies against a well-connected D.A. who's looking to try a shady case just for the easy win. But it's Will's innocent date-rape client who may pay the price for Kathleen's crusade once Terry is ordered to make sure the kid is sent away.
S1 • E18
Ripley comes under fire after Chris Maguire is busted for falsely claiming to have bribed the judge involved with his sister, while Dan sees the whole investigation as a plot to keep him from running for office. Meanwhile, Will puts his life on the line to get firsthand proof that his client has reliable testimony about a wanted killer.
S1 • E19
Kathleen battles Terry over parental rights while defending a man's efforts to keep his recovering-addict wife away from their son. Meanwhile, Will takes some extreme steps of his own to protect a client from the mobster he's accused of robbing.
S1 • E20
Kathleen and Erin clash in court over a woman charged with killing her rapist; Will defends a little person who attacked a fellow tabloid talk-show guest; the campaign for district attorney gets ugly as Cabretti goes after the dirt on Dan's abusive past.
S1 • E21
A stripper accused of stealing from her club leads Will to the establishment's owner - and the truth about Dan's DA rival; Terry has a hard time with a mercy-killing case that hits too close to home.
S1 • E22
An obsessed former juror makes life very scary for Judge Ripley; Kathleen refuses to give up on a client on trial for shooting his attacker; and Will pulls a fast one to get his voodoo-spewing client cleared of a fraud charge.
Kathleen Maguire
Will Froman
Terry Loomis
Patricia
Patrick Cavanaugh
Daniel X. Cavanaugh
Judge Irwin Hawes
Judge Augustus Ripley
Judge Ellen Armstrong
A.D.A. Jerry Bingham