Bobby's priest becomes a client after a woman suffers a fatal heart attack during an exorcism.

Bobby spends the night at Helen's. While they are in bed, someone calls Helen and leaves a message on her machine. It's the police telling her they're going to bust someone, which Bobby overhears. And the person who's going to be busted is one of his clients. He tells Eugene who tells him that he's duty bound to tell the client. He tells the client and because of that they were ready for the police and some of them were killed. Helen says that Bobby was the one who told about the bust. So Bobby is arrested. Initially he was charged with something minor but later they decided to charge him with murder. So with Eugene as his counsel, they decide to let the judge decide if he's guilty.

Hellen and Bobby's relationship is sent into a turmoil, when they are put at opposite sides of the same juicy, high-profile murder case, and neither is willing to back out. Eugene represents Rebecca's old and cranky uncle for tax evasion.

With their romantic relationship now over, Bobby and Helen face each other in court on the murder trial of Dr. Jeffrey Winslow. Determined to come out on top, each of them prepares tricks and surprises for the other - but the real surprise comes after the trial is over.

Joey Herric returns, having killed yet another lover by stabbing him in the chest. Hellen takes on the case, determined to finally get Joey, and Bobby tries to suppress his previous crime from evidence. Ellenor defends purse snatcher Warren Cruikshank, charged with affecting tourism and faced with 20 years in jail. Lindsay once again takes on her former Professor, Anderson Pearson, but this time instead of making a settlement offer, he makes her a job offer.

Lindsay is called to defend her old professor and mentor, Anderson Pearson, when he is charged with murder. Helen must prosecute a man for murder, with the only witness being a 4 year old child. Having passed the bar exam, Rebecca tries her first case, and the firm hires a new secretary.

George Vogleman, the podiatrist who Ellenor once dated, comes to her for help with a gruesome surprise in his bag. Jimmy and Rebecca defend a man who has been planning to kill his wife for years, while Lindsay and Bobby prepare for the Pearson trial. Finally, Hellen and Lindsay move in together.

Ellenor and Eugene head the defense of George Vogleman in the Susan Robin murder trial, with almost no prospect of winning. Scrapping to put on a defense, Eugene employs the infamous "Plan B" on the victim's brother, and Ellenor betrays Helen's confidence when she calls her to stand to testify about a private conversation they had.

A guilt-ridden Lindsay is determined to get Anderson Pearson's conviction reduced to manslaughter, and gets into a world of trouble with Judge Hiller. Eugene and Ellenor's actions during the Vogelman trial come back to haunt them, when the brother of the victim sues them for falsely accusing him of murder. Two old cases, both ending with grave miscarriages of justice, are reawakened - when Helen makes an illegal deal with a wrongly convicted man, in order to get a murderer who managed to escape punishment.

Jimmy leads the firm's defense against Tommy Silva's lawsuit for their actions during the Vogleman trial. Silva uses Ellenor's past actions to hang her, and Jimmy makes a questionable move during Eugene's testimony. Trying to get everyone's spirits up, Lucy insists they have a Christmas party.

A series of chaotic events reopens the Susan Robin murder case, which results in Ellenor's arrest for concealing evidence during George's trial. The entire firm stands ready to go to war for Ellenor, but no one is ready for the shocking truth behind this turn of events.

Lindsay is in complete terror when the man who stabbed her begins leaving presents at the office, as she starts to unravel. Rebecca once again clashes with Judge Swackheim over a complicated case of a man who confesses to running over a woman, while Rebecca believes he is being paid to do so by the real driver. After moving in with Hellen, a horrified Ellenor's life is in danger when George finally shows his true colors.

Helen is called in to question the son of a well-known police detective. Because she uses the father to get the son to confess to a murder, Bobby and Eugene try to have the confession thrown out. Meanwhile, Ellenor represents a slightly intellectually disabled young man accused of murder, and suspects a surprise witness who suddenly comes to his defense might be lying.

Bobby and Eugene defend Courtney Hansen, nicknamed by the media "The Black Widow", a woman accused of killing her weak-hearted husband by having sex with him to death. Having lost 2 previous husbands under mysterious circumstances, the ADA tries to prove it is her M.O. to marry sick old men for their money, and then kill them. Meanwhile, Helen tricks a confession out of a traumatized 15 year old girl, accused of killing her unborn baby, and Ellenor argues she is too young to withstand such trickery.

Haunted with guilt over Scott Wallace's murder of his boss, Bobby is determined to defend him, lashing out at everybody including Jimmy, who agrees to become a witness for the prosecution. Helen goes up against an old boyfriend in a drug case, when the defendant asks for her help and claims his lawyer actually works for his employers, and doesn't really represent his interests. Meanwhile, William Hinks' stalking of Lindsay gets more and more disturbing, and eventually turns deadly.