A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
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- Seasons
- 8
- Episodes aired
- 168
- Latest aired
- S08E22
- Total runtime
- 5d 3h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 March 1997 – April 1997 6 episodes
- Season 2 September 1997 – May 1998 28 episodes
- Season 3 September 1998 – May 1999 23 episodes
- Season 4 September 1999 – May 2000 22 episodes
- Season 5 October 2000 – May 2001 22 episodes
- Season 6 September 2001 – May 2002 23 episodes
- Season 7 September 2002 – May 2003 22 episodes
- Season 8 September 2003 – May 2004 22 episodes
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S04E01 Free Dental
September 26 · 44min find the promo
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Bobby and Jimmy defend a dentist accused of murdering a frequent patient... but eventually discover he's hiding a sordid secret. Ellenor dines with George Vogelman.
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S04E02 Boston Confidential
October 3 · 44min find the promo
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Bobby gets a murderer off on a technicality when the arresting officer illegally searches the car and finds a corpse. Jimmy goes against Henry Olson's wishes and confronts Olson's son to try to convince him to confess to the murder. Lindsay decides to move in with Bobby, leaving her possessions...including her answering machine, at Helen's.
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S04E03 Loser's Keepers
October 10 · 44min find the promo
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Tensions flare when the 'male nun' starts infiltrating the office. Ellenor buys a gun for protection. Rebecca suspects that a wealthy man has bought a client's guilty plea.
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S04E04 Legacy (1)
October 17 · 44min find the promo
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Bobby's old mentor, Raymond Oz, calls on Bobby to represent him when his wife tries to have him declared incompetent. Bobby has reservations after observing Oz in a clearly disturbed state of mind. Eugene co-counsels for an incompetent lawyer who's never won a jury trial. Ellenor sinks into depression in the aftermath of the Vogelman affair.
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S04E05 Oz (2)
October 24 · 44min find the promo
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Bobby acts as Raymond Oz's co-counsel while Oz persists in forging ahead with a self-defense strategy.
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S04E06 Marooned
November 7 · 44min find the promo
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Rebecca defends a girl accused of killing her mother. The girl claims she suffers from flashbacks involving child molestation. Lindsay and Bobby argue over wedding dresses.
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S04E07 Victimless Crimes
November 14 · 44min find the promo
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Jimmy defends a remorseless rape victim who murdered her attacker. Lucy is bitten by her dentist while under anesthesia.
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S04E08 Committed
November 21 · 44min find the promo
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Lindsay represents a serial murderer confined in an asylum when his case is up for review. Eugene's son is a prime suspect when his mother's lover is beaten to death in her bed.
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S04E09 Bay of Pigs
November 28 · 44min find the promo
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Ellenor takes on Richard Bay in a case wherein a little old lady is accused of attempting to run over her husband in her car. Bay and Ellenor clash both in and out of court. Jimmy evaluates his relationship with Judge Kittleson when he represents an old girlfriend in a suit regarding the sale of reproductive eggs.
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S04E10 Day in Court
December 12 · 44min find the promo
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Tempers flare over a particularly tough case. Bobby defends old cling/drug dealer Eddie against the murder of an addict. Eddie claims it is self-defense. D.A. Helen brings the coroner to testify that it wasn't. The coroner's testimony is damaged by prior odd behavior. Eddie attacks Helen to try to force the judge into a mistrial. Bobby & Swackheim nearly come to blows. Each of the participants, Bobby, Helen & Swackheim, express their outrage with the legal system.
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S04E11 Blowing Smoke
January 9 · 44min find the promo
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Lindsay sues a cigar company for breaking up a friend's marriage. She alleges that the husband's addiction was the deciding factor in the divorce. Rebecca & Ellenor defend a police officer who killed a teenage boy in a grocery store. The officer claims he saw a gun. The cashier says otherwise.
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S04E12 New Evidence (1)
January 30 · 44min find the promo
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Lindsay takes the firm to Los Angeles to defend an acquaintance who's on trial for murdering his on-line girlfriend. As evidence mounts against their client, Bobby and the rest deal with a controlling judge, an antagonistic detective and the victim's sister, a nun with issues.
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S04E13 Hammerhead Sharks (2)
February 6 · 44min find the promo
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Dennis Mills maintains his innocence. The firm continues the trial, striving against all odds to exonerate Mills.
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S04E14 Checkmates
February 13 · 44min find the promo
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Ellenor defends a 'slow' teenager accused of killing a younger boy. A witness comes forward claiming to have information exonerating her client, but Ellenor suspects he's lying. Helen calls in a police officer when his son is under suspicion in a homicide. Representing the accused, Bobby argues the officer was acting as an agent of the court, not a father.
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S04E15 Race Ipsa Loquitor
February 20 · 44min find the promo
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Jimmy is tempted to compromise his integrity to get convicted murder (and insect admirer) Henry Olson released. Eugene and Rebecca represent a woman who's suing a plastic surgeon when her husband dies during a liposuction procedure. They soon realize they're as much on trial as the surgeon when the opposing attorney makes several references to their race.
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S04E16 Settling
March 12 · 44min find the promo
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Bobby is kidnapped by an irate former client who claims Bobby's incompetence in a manslaughter trial forced him to spend 12 years in prison.
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S04E17 Black Widows
April 2 · 44min find the promo
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Bobby defends the so-called 'Black Widow'; a woman who's accused of murdering her recently deceased husband and whose two previous spouses also died mysteriously. Helen lies to a 15-year-old girl who killed her unborn child, coercing her into giving a statement.
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S04E18 Death Penalties
April 9 · 44min find the promo
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Bobby and Helen clash in an assisted suicide case. Bobby remembers his experiences of 'pulling the plug' on his mother and acts as though he were on trial. Meanwhile, Ellenor flies to Pennsylvania to try to exonerate a 31-year-old death row inmate who claims to be innocent of a double homicide.
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S04E19 Till Death Do Us Part (1)
April 30 · 44min find the promo
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Ellenor pursues the Donovan case, hoping to forestall his execution. Meanwhile, Rebecca's case representing a woman with Alzheimer's trying to keep her marriage from being annulled becomes complicated when questions arise about the death of her client's first husband.
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S04E20 Liberty Bells (2)
May 7 · 44min find the promo
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Ellenor continues the Donovan case, following up on the various leads to exonerate her client.
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S04E21 The Honorable Man
May 14 · 44min find the promo
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Eugene is disgusted by his client, a homeless man accused of murdering a woman and raping her corpse. Jimmy represents an old friend who's being sued for notifying employees that one of their co-workers has AIDS.
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S04E22 Life Sentence
May 21 · 44min find the promo
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Ellenor defends a deaf woman who shot and killed the man who allegedly murdered her young daughter. The client's crime is captured on video in front of dozens of witnesses, leaving no doubt as to who committed the act. The only to way to exonerate the client is to manipulate the jury's heartstrings. Meanwhile Lindsay learns that Bobby hates weddings and decides to spring a surprise elopement.