Nick Fallon is a young hot-shot lawyer who gets busted for drugs. He avoids jail but is ordered to perform community service as a child advocate while balancing his existing career of corporate law at his father's firm.
Nick takes on a pharmaceutical company that he indirectly blames for the murder of a boy's mother by his own father.
Nick works to protect a handicapped boy who wants to live with his step-father when his mom is jailed for prostitution but the state orders him out into a state home.
When Nick is asked to represent a teenage girl who may have been raped by her stepfather, he unwittingly places her in a more dangerous situation.
Nick unknowingly has a sexual encounter with a teenage girl who tries to blackmail him to represent her in a adoption case involving her sister.
Nick fights to find a orphaned girl a suitable legal guardian or she won't be able to get a much needed heart transplant.
Nick violates his parole by using drugs again as he succumbs to the pressures of work.
When a woman's death is deemed suspicious, Nick contests her will, as her family is suspect.
Nick's aunt and uncle come for a visit, bringing with them a hurtful past.
A drug-addeled woman fears loss of custody of her baby and holds her hostage to prevent it.
Nick and Burton assist in resolving a contract dispute between a factor and a labor union.
When a couple wants to adopt a boy but not his mentally handicapped brother, the boy enlists Nick to stop the process.
A girl turns up 8 years after she went missing, just as her mother tries to declare her legally dead.
Nick is essentially blackmailed to do a favor for his parole officer who threatens to expose Nick's parole violations if he doesn't help and eventually lands him in the middle of a deadly situation
A teenage couple turn to Nick and Lulu for help retaining custody of their newborn baby.
Nick's father turns his firm over to a senator as he prepares his bid to be a federal judge and Nick fights to retain what is rightfully his.
Nick sets a coup in motion at his father's firm and Mandy, now a wanted killer, is on the loose and ends up confronting Nick at his house which leads to tragic consequences.