Roxanne has to deal with her difficult father, Murray, after he is kicked out of his retirement home and he keeps showing up at the office. Judge Grace Van Owen thinks that her days as a judge are numbered due to criticism from her harsh rulings. Meanwhile, Markowitz cuts his courtroom teeth on his latest civil case concerning a man tortured in an Argentine prison suing the former prison guard who tortured him. Victor starts a rebellion when Rosalind sells out his client to the highest bidder, and McKenzie blames himself for all the chaos at the firm resulting from his resignation. When McKenzie finally learns that Rosalind is in complete control of All of the firm's clients, both old and new, he makes an immediate decision to oust Rosalind. Also, Kuzak tells McKenzie that he's thinking of leaving the firm to stay with his dying father in New York.

Victor represents a priest charged with causing a parishioner's nervous breakdown for not forgiving his wife of her sins. Meanwhile, Becker represents Roxanne when she goes forward with petitioning the court for conservator ship for her father. Rosalind and the rest of the firm faces dissolution when McKenzie retracts his resignation and returns to the firm determined to seek reinstatement as senior partner.

Rosalind Shays returns with an equally ruthless and manipulative lawyer, Jack Sollers, to sue the firm for sexual discrimination. Markowitz suffers a heart attack during the trial and is put on leave. Meanwhile, Kuzak faces Darron Holloway, an angry, civil-rights black activist inciting the press and the public while he takes the case of defending Brian Chisolm, a white policeman accused of shooting a black youth. Also, Roxanne has more problems with her father, Murray, when she tells him that he has Alzheimer's Disease.

The Rosalind Shays lawsuit continues with Grace and Victor springing a surprise witness against Rosalind when her own daughter Susan Raab testifies against her, embarrassing Rosalind. But the case continues to go badly when Kelsey, Becker and even McKenzie himself are racked over on the witness stand with damaging incidents from their pasts, which makes matters worse when the troublesome and senile Murray begins inciting reporters about the case. Meanwhile, Kuzak faces off against a biased judge on the Chisolm case who's trying to appease Holloway and the angry black masses protesting for a conviction, while Kuzak tries to get a very reluctant Rollins to help him sit co-counsel for the case. Markowitz and Kelsey agree to a sexual hiatus, and Douglas decides to end his relationship with his sex surrogate, Marilyn Hopkins, after finding out of her other weird clients.

A worried Kelsey goes to McKenzie and Kuzak to try to get Markowitz removed from a stressful tax case while at the same time, she represents a gay man suing the parents of his terminally ill lover who's dying from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis for visitation rights. Meanwhile, Becker and Abby try to retrieve the money Benny donated to a questionable religious order. Grace debates a marriage proposal from Sollers. Murray paints the mens room and later moves in with Benny, and Brackman gets burned in an unusual place after smoking on a turpentine-filled toilet in the newly painted mens room.

Grace fights the overseas shipment of a donated kidney destined for a wealthy patient to help out a close friend. When she fails, Mullaney approaches Grace and hires a kidney broker in order to get a kidney for her friend. Meanwhile, Kuzak represents an angry, left-wing Vietnam veteran suing a patriotic son of a KIA Vietnam vet who assaulted him for burning an American flag at a Veterans Day demonstration. Murray and Benny pose a lawyers to get dates from a taxi-dance club they are now going to, and they later end up in jail for getting into a barroom brawl. Also, C.J. takes a humorous case of representing several overweight men injured in a bus accident who are suing the bus company involved.

Murray suddenly dies from a stroke before the Christmas holiday, devastating everyone including Benny and Roxanne. Meanwhile, a smitten McKenzie willingly volunteers himself and a reluctant Grace to defend Rosalind against savings & loan charges, despite everyone's protest. Victor is representing a hospital chief of staff being sued by Paul Kohler, a bitter doctor who claims he was fired because of his physical disfigurement. Brackman and Rollins try to use hypnosis to control Noah Cowen, the businessman with Tourette's Syndrome, in preparation for a financial deal meeting. C.J. arranges the office Christmas party with Grace as Santa, and Kelsey tells Markowitz that she is thinking of a divorce.