Victor asks Grace to have dinner with him and his family, but the evening ends in tragedy when his brother Charlie is put in a coma of as a result of a car accident, in which Victor pushes the hospital to let his brain-damaged, comatose brother taken off life support. Meanwhile, Kuzak and Mullaney are hired by Rikki Davis, a well-known heiress, to defend her against charges that she and her boyfriend murdered her 72-year-old husband for his money. Also, Zoey opposes Brian Byrd, a sleazy attorney who is representing a smug, wealthy executive accused of raping a 16-year-old girl.

The Rikki Davis murder trial begins when Kuzak and Mullaney, added by the firm, deal successfully with the case. But later, both Kuzak and Mullaney are dealt with a body blow when Rikki's former boyfriend, David Schaeffer suddenly testifies against her. However, Kuzak counters by putting Rikki's late husband's lawyer, Mark Chelios, on the witness stand where he catches him in a series of lies about Mr. Davis will and his greedy daughter. Meanwhile, Rosalind proposes to an astonished McKenzie on his 62nd birthday, where he confides in Kelsey about it.

Since the departure of Michael Kuzak, Victor Sifuentes, Abby Perkins, and Jack Sollers from the firm, McKenzie and Brackman are looking for more litigator power. Grace, having suffered from a miscarriage and leaving Victor, returns to the firm and is immediately given a high-profile case with Mullaney in defending Elsa Chandler, a woman charged with murdering her abusive husband. McKenzie tries to adjust himself to the brash new tenant sharing office space, the crude, smart-mouthed, chain-smoking, entertainment lawyer Susan Bloom, to boost revenues for the sagging firm. Meanwhile, Becker's secretary, Gwen Taylor, is on jury duty and witnesses Bloom's associate, the crafty Frank Kittredge, go to the limits of ethics to defend his wealthy client from an assault charge. Kelsey and Markowitz struggle to find the right nanny for their son, Matthew, and they hire Ned Barron, a college student just right for the job. Also, Billy Castroverti is hired as a new junior associate.