LA Law

Grace returns to McKenzie, Brackman with a high-profile client charged with murdering her abusive husband. Leland tries to adjust himself to the brash new tenant sharing office space, entertainment lawyer Susan Bloom. Ann and Stuart struggle to find just the right nanny for Matthew.

Van Owen elicits emotional testimony from her client about her years of abuse. A family is split apart by a civil action to make the US government accountable for continuing MIAs in Vietnam. Arnie appears on television.

Brackman accidentally becomes the victim in a gay-bashing incident. Ann defends a logging company executive being sued for a sawmill accident that involved an environmental activist. Mullaney goes out on a limb to defend a woman who wants to plead guilty. C.J.'s father comes to town on a drunken bender.

Zoey's case threatens to move a death-row schizophrenic closer to an execution date. A splenectomy patient challenges a doctor's right to profit from her donor cells. Bloom gets into a territorial dispute with Roxanne over the office.

A tenant in an inner-city housing project where guns have been banned sues for the right to defend himself. Grace petitions the court on behalf of a former drug addict facing involuntary sterilization. Leland becomes the surrogate parent for a primate involved in a divorce case between two animal trainers.

The partners fear the new litigator's representation of a mob boss will ruin the firm's relations with the new D.A.

Brackman's former sister-in-law sues the school board for failing to pay for her developmentally-disabled son's private education. Susan Bloom takes on a case of an overweight man accused of assaulting a lunch wagon proprietor who sold him high-calorie drinks on a daily basis. Roxanne helps an overworked Gwen get back at Arnie.

C.J. takes a close interest in the custody suit of an old friend whose lesbian love affair threatens to take her children away from her. Low staff morale makes it difficult for Douglas to organize the annual office Christmas party, so Benny and Bill Castroverde take over the chores.

Tommy and Zoey are on opposite sides in the prosecution of an accused serial killer. An eccentric client's sanity becomes an issue in a multi-million dollar movie deal.

A patient paralyzed during back surgery sues, claiming her physician was impaired. Benny petitions the court for custody of a homeless youth. Bloom has the inside track on a fabulous job offer. Douglas begins seeing his former sister-in-law romantically.

C.J.'s client accuses the Federal government of negligence after a federally protected witness murders and rapes his wife. Arnie faces humiliation over the airwaves. Tommy's presence stirs up trouble between Zoey and Jonathan.

Mullaney aids in a class action suit by Honduran banana farmers who claim American pesticides made them sterile. ADA Margaret Flanagan begins to confront repressed memories of child abuse. Kelsey goes out with Matthew's nanny as Stuart meets a regal actress he admired as a child.

Sifuentes hopes to reconcile with Grace when he returns to represent his family in a wrongful death suit against the drunk driver who killed his brother. Kittredge drags Gwen into a dispute between a fashion designer and her protege. Benny's ward, Sam, visits the office and causes more trouble.

Zoey continues to help the female attorney as she comes to realize the full magnitude of abuse both she and her sisters suffered years ago by their father. Leland, although on a diet, ends up as the gastronomic judge in a dispute between a noted cookbook author and her former pupil. Jonathan's father comes to him for legal help while Mrs. Rollins meets Zoey with undisguised hostility.

A Jewish philanthropist faces a lawsuit when he withdraws financial support for a medical researcher who hopes to use data from Nazi experiments to save lives. The Markowitzes receive an unexpected visitor: a sixteen-year-old girl claiming to be Stuart's daughter.

Grace receives a lot of flack from her female colleagues when she defends a baseball player accused of rape. DePalma becomes embroiled in a complex courtroom sting operation. Roxanne and Arnie's tentative relationship is nearly capsized by Julie's revelations. Stuart gets Sarah a job at McKenzie, Brackman, with Ann's tentative approval.

Arnie tries to win back Roxanne after his shrink dies. Douglas and Sheila clash again when son Alexander gets in trouble. Susan Bloom shocks the office with an invitation to her unexpected wedding. The Markowitz' nanny, Ned, goes too far and is fired. De Palma's participation in the judicial sting operation impairs his ability to function in court.

A wealthy and powerful businessman is sued for a hit-and-run accident involving a homeless man, while C.J. has a romance with bloom's sexy new European husband after it's revealed that he wed bloom only to get his green card. Additionally, Benny loses custody of his foster son after the boy gets into trouble with Brackman's son.

Stuart makes a rare court appearance to defend a condom manufacturer barred from distributing his American flag decorated condoms. Jonathan mulls over the possible results if he won a city-council seat. Gwen feels betrayed when Kittredge uses their relationship to damage one of Arnie's clients.

Zoey helps a jailhouse lawyer with his case. Sarah gives her mother and the Markowitzes cause for worry. An aspiring actress places the blame for her faulty breast-implant surgery on the shoulders of a Hollywood studio chief. Susan experiences very mixed emotions when Mikhail and a starlet steam up the camera lens during a movie shoot.

Gracie gets a personal message from beyond as she represents a widower who claims he was bilked out of a fortune by a psychic. C.J. finds herself attracted to opposing counsel as she argues for the starlet maimed by breast implants. Zoey is very pessimistic about the future of her relationship with Jonathan. Gwen finally sees through Kittredge.

Arnie's AIDS-stricken ex-lover needs a will drawn. Roxanne gets a blood test, despite Arnie's efforts to be evasive. Victor visits Grace with a proposal.