09/20/97
Season 2: Episode 1 - "Reasonable Doubts"
Bobby's judgement is compromised when he becomes romantically involved with a client.
09/23/97
Season 2: Episode 2 - "Betrayal"
Bobby and Ellenor are undermined by a fast-talking pathological liar (John Larroquette) who is involved in a murderous, homosexual love-triangle; and Jimmy's reputation is on the line when he gets picked up for solicitation.
09/27/97
Season 2: Episode 3 - "The Blessing"
Bobby and ADA Helen Gamble face each other and their respective painful pasts in an assisted suicide trial; and with Eugene's help, Lindsay goes toe-to-toe with her ex-boyfriend, Chris Kelton, to defend an aged bookied.
10/04/97
Season 2: Episode 4 - "Dog Bite"
When Ellenor and Lindsay defend Kenny the pimp, Lindsay is approached by a jury member, which may jeopardize the outcome of their case; Eugene strikes another bet with ADA Williams boasting that — despite an eyewitness — he'll exonerate his one-legged thief of a client; and Berluti pushes the envelope to get a huge settlement for a nine-year-old girl bitten by a rottweiler.
10/11/97
Season 2: Episode 5 - "First Degree"
Bobby serves as co-counsel with his former lover in a murder case; Eugene defends a cop who believes the job has turned him into a racist; Ellenor and Lindsay fight their suspension; and Jimmy has an erotic dream about one of his co-workers.
10/18/97
Season 2: Episode 6 - "Sex, Lies, and Monkeys"
Lindsay is slipped the date-rape drug by her occasional boyfriend; Ellenor gets sued for causing emotional stress to George Vogelman, the podiatrist she romantically rejected; Berluti goes to trial to defend a man who lost his job because he looks like a monkey; and Bobby tries to right some wrongs in the sentencing of an innocent woman.
10/25/97
Season 2: Episode 7 - "Search and Seizure"
Helen Gamble makes a pass at an unsuspecting Bobby during a Halloween party; Lindsay puts yet another drug dealer back on the streets; and Eugene and Ellenor represent Rebecca's friend, who seeks a court-ordered injunction to force his wife to have a C-section.
11/08/97
Season 2: Episode 8 - "The Means"
Out of desperation and against Eugene's advice, Bobby plays the race card in the case against Aaron Wilton, a black man accused of manslaughter during a riot; and Ellenor represents her obnoxious cousin, who is suing her travel agent for ruining her honeymoon.
11/15/97
Season 2: Episode 9 - "Save the Mule"
Lindsay draws the line at representing drug-runners when a client almost dies during a bust; Jimmy comes to the rescue of a community stricken with cancer; and Bobby ends a secret romance when things with Helen Gamble begin to heat up.
11/22/97
Season 2: Episode 10 - "Spirit of America"
Bobby and the firm are called in by the Capital Defenders Project to keep convicted murderer Randy Jefferson from facing death by lethal injection. The frantic process of trying to prevent his execution is caught on tape by a documentary crew.
11/29/97
Season 2: Episode 11 - "Hide and Seek"
Raymond Oz (James Whitmore), the legendary attorney and Bobby's former mentor, asks Bobby to second-chair a high profile case when he fears his occasional memory lapses might cause problems during trial; Eugene's career choices come to a head when he defends a repeat offender who has sodomized and brutally murdered two young boys; and Berluti's teenage fantasies come true when the female celebrity sex symbol from his childhood seeks his legal counsel.
12/13/97
Season 2: Episode 12 - "Race with the Devil"
When Bobby's priest performs an exorcism on a parishioner, who dies during the procedure, Bobby must manipulate the system to shield Father Martin from murder charges; Eugene represents Martin Parks in a bizarre malpractice suit; and Berluti — coming off his first victory — tapes a commercial to try to drum up additional business.
12/20/97
Season 2: Episode 13 - "The Civil Right"
When Berluti learns his mother is gay and wants to marry another woman, he must put aside his prejudices and help her battle the judicial system to find happiness. Meanwhile, Eugene and Ellenor defend a repeat-offender rapist in his criminal trial.
01/03/98
Season 2: Episode 14 - "The Pursuit of Dignity"
Bobby reconnects with an old girlfriend who needs his help after she is arrested for prostitution; Ellenor and Rebecca fight to keep a 12-year-old girl with Tourette's syndrome in school; and Lindsay defends a woman who is suing her doctor for sewing live maggots into her leg to prevent post-surgical infection.
01/05/98
Season 2: Episode 15 - "Line of Duty"
During a night of passion with Helen Gamble, Bobby overhears plans of a police raid on his drug-dealing client, John Isikoff. Obligated to warn off Isikoff, Bobby faces charges of reckless homicide when the bust goes terribly wrong and three officers are killed.
01/12/98
Season 2: Episode 16 - "Truth and Consequences"
When Rebecca witnesses a murder and picks out the killer in a lineup, her life is threatened by his gang-banging brother. Meanwhile, Jimmy and Ellenor — with the help of Lindsay — take the next precarious step in the case against Boston's biggest electric company.
01/19/98
Season 2: Episode 17 - "Burden of Proof"
With a clearly mapped-out strategy and some risky negotiating tactics, Berluti sets out on the trial of his life, hoping to prove that Boston power lines gave his clients cancer.
02/02/98
Season 2: Episode 18 - "Ties that Bind"
Ellenor and Lindsay defend a hardcore porn star accused of killing her husband/co-star; and Helen finds out about one of Bobby's past lovers.
02/09/98
Season 2: Episode 19 - "The Trial"
Bobby and Helen butt heads and send their relationship into a a tailspin when neither will back down from a high-profile murder case. And Eugene defends Rebecca's irascible uncle who is being sued by the government for tax evasion.
02/16/98
Season 2: Episode 20 - "Cloudy With a Chance of Membranes"
Bobby and the whole firm use every trick in the book to keep Helen Gamble and the DA's office from putting murderer Dr. Jeffrey Winslow in prison for life.
03/02/98
Season 2: Episode 21 - "In Deep"
Rebecca is the only witness to the murder of a gas station attendant, but a tough defense lawyer raises doubts about who and what she saw. Meanwhile, Ellenor defends a petty purse snatcher who has become a political pawn.
03/09/98
Season 2: Episode 22 - "Another Day"
One of Bobby's most flamboyant clients, Joey Heric (John Laroquette), has murdered a second lover, only this time Joey chooses to defend himself and Helen has been assigned to prosecute him.
03/16/98
Season 2: Episode 23 - "Checkmate"
Helen Gamble knows she must not rely on evidence, but outsmart Joey Heric if she is to send him to jail.
03/30/98
Season 2: Episode 24 - "Trees in the Forest"
Lindsay throws the entire firm into turmoil when she demands to be made partner, but it's her personal confession that really catches Bobby off guard.
04/06/98
Season 2: Episode 25 - "Food Chains"
Ellenor fights to save a highly intelligent chimpanzee from deadly medical testing; Helen, Jimmy, and Rebecca set up a sting to expose an insurance fraud ring.
04/27/98
Season 2: Episode 26 - "Axe Murderer"
When one of their business clients is accused of a gruesome and bizarre murder, Ally McBeal (Calista Flockhart) and Billy Thomas (Gil Bellows) enlist the help of Bobby, his team and their expertise in criminal defense.
05/04/98
Season 2: Episode 27 - "Duty Bound"
A dead teenager has been found in the office of Jimmy's family priest. All evidence points to Father Ryan; but as Jimmy gets close to unveiling the real killer, he is shot at close range in the church parking lot, leaving his colleagues to pray for his recovery and find the gunman.
05/11/98
Season 2: Episode 28 - "Rhyme & Reason"
When a seemingly good 13-year-old kid shoots and kills his mother, Bobby is called in to defend him. Helen asks the judge to try him as an adult.