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Melissa Hughes is a fictional character portrayed by Marisa Coughlan in the TV series Boston Legal.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Truly, Madly, Deeply (season 2), they were 31 years old.
They appear in 12 episodes out of a total of 101 aired

Melissa Hughes

by Marisa Coughlan

character

Episodes12

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    Truly, Madly, Deeply
    episode S2.E7 november 2005
    Denny does not want to defend a man who raped and killed a 13-year-old girl. He finds a way to get out of it, but ends up in jail. Alan has to overcome his fear of clowns, when he helps suing one. Shirley assigns a weird bestiality to Denise.
  • 8.1
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    The Ass Fat Jungle
    episode S2.E8 november 2005
    Denise defends the top Boston plastic surgeon, who is sued for injecting fat from his butt into his patients. Shirley has problems handling a case involving an Alzheimer's patient. Meanwhile Denny undergoes an MRI, while Alan has night terrors and asks his new secretary to guard him at night.
  • 8.7
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    Legal Deficits
    episode S2.E10 december 2005
    Denny and Shirley team up to defend Brad, who is on trial for his actions in trying to find a kidnapped boy. Alan helps his secretary solve her credit card woes with assistance from Jerry Espenson, an expert in financial law who exhibits odd social behavior.
  • 8
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    The Cancer Man Can
    episode S2.E11 january 2006
    Alan takes up the cause of one of the associates, Denny meets a woman, and Denise helps defend a client accused of buying his way onto a drug trial.
  • 8.1
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    Helping Hands
    episode S2.E12 january 2006
    Daniel Post finagles his way onto one of Denise's cases, Alan takes up Jerry's cause with rather more enthusiasm than Shirley would like, and Denny gets serious about his new love.
  • 8
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    Stick It
    episode S2.E19 march 2006
    Alan does his best to fight for his assistant, Melissa, who submitted blank taxes; Denise defends a vigilante cop impersonator; and Paul tries to uncover the truth about his daughter's drug use.
  • 8.4
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    Race Ipsa
    episode S2.E23 april 2006
    Denny shoots Dr. Sydney Fields after a verbal showdown during a therapy session, leaving Alan to defend him in court and the partners to ponder whether it is time to oust Denny from the firm.
  • 8.3
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    Deep End of the Poole
    episode S2.E24 may 2006
    Partner Edwin Poole returns to the firm after a stint in a mental institution
  • 7.8
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    Squid Pro Quo
    episode S2.E25 may 2006
    Ambitious Marlene Stanger joins the firm. Denny faces his son in court.
  • 8.1
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    Can't We All Get a Lung?
    episode S3.E1 september 2006
    Alan hires a sexual surrogate to help Jerry Espenson overcome his fear of intimacy with women, which only gets Jerry in more legal trouble. And Shirley takes Daniel Post's case after Denise learns that her fiancé is planning to buy a lung from a terminally-ill man.
  • 8.4
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    New Kids on the Block
    episode S3.E2 september 2006
    A cocky new lawyer joins the firm from the New York office and defends a client who was having an adulterous affair with a murdered judge, and Denny gets in more hot water after a blind date with a "midget."
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    Trick or Treat
    episode S3.E7 october 2006
    Alan must defend Jerry Espenson again, this time for committing perjury to get on a jury. Meanwhile, Denise learns that her fiancé, Daniel Post, has died, but the doctors are having trouble locating his remains.