09/27/98
Season 3: Episode 1 - "Passing Go"
An anxiously anticipated letter reveals how Rebecca has been secretly spending her after-work hours. Lindsay announces that the newly decorated conference room is at last reached completion, but Bobby fails to share her enthusiasm. Uncertain of becoming the sort of blue-chip lawyer he has long held in disdain, Bobby seeks the approval of the one person whose opinion maters—his father (Charles Durning).
10/04/98
Season 3: Episode 2 - "Reasons to Believe"
When her former professor, Anderson Pearson, is arrested for murder he calls on Lindsay to defend him. Helen and Lindsay move in together. Rebecca tries her first case.
10/11/98
Season 3: Episode 3 - "Body Count"
Lindsay and Bobby continue to defend her former law professor as the evidence mounts against him; Rebecca is asked to defend a man with a very unusual hobby; and Ellenor has a client with a giant headache.
10/18/98
Season 3: Episode 4 - "The Defenders"
Bobby and Lindsay hear the verdict in the Anderson Pearson murder trial. Meanwhile, Ellenor faces mounting evidence against the doctor who found his one-night stand's head in his medical bag.
10/25/98
Season 3: Episode 5 - "The Battlefield"
Lindsay refuses to accept defeat in the Pearson case and begins a desperate attempt at an appeal; Ellenor — also desperate — continues to search for any piece of evidence to save accused murderer and decapitator George; and Jimmy must face some truths about himself when he elects to defend an accused bigot.
11/08/98
Season 3: Episode 6 - "One of Those Days"
The trial of accused murderer and decapitator George Vogelman comes to its shocking conclusion.
11/15/98
Season 3: Episode 7 - "Trench Work"
Bobby fears that Lindsay's emotional involvement is threatening her judgement as she takes one last shot at saving Anderson Pearson.
11/29/98
Season 3: Episode 8 - "Swearing In"
Tommy Silva (Tony Danza) begins to build his case against Donnell, Young, Dole & Frutt; Bobby agrees to defend a woman accused of a particularly vicious crime; and just as her new career begins, Rebecca questions the legal system to which she has sworn allegiance.
12/06/98
Season 3: Episode 9 - "State of Mind"
Bobby makes a controversial decision when he selects the lawyer to first chair against Tommy Silva; and accused baby-killer Evelyn Mayfield (Kathy Baker) hears her verdict.
12/13/98
Season 3: Episode 10 - "Love and Honor"
A tense dramatic trial ensues as Jimmy Berlutti leads Donnell, Young, Dole and Frutt's defense against Tommy Silva; meanwhile Lucy is determined that they all celebrate the season.
01/03/99
Season 3: Episode 11 - "Split Decisions"
Hostility brews in the firm when Ellenor had the opportunity to bring in a big-money corporate client; and Helen must face her own conscience when she is asked to prosecute a case more to serve politics than justice.
01/10/99
Season 3: Episode 12 - "A Day in the Life"
Bobby and Eugene face a crisis of conscience when they uncover the truth about a murdered infant. Helen plans a day of R&R for herself and Lindsay.
01/17/99
Season 3: Episode 13 - "Judge and Jury"
Helen Gamble addresses the issue of physician-assisted suicide — and the media's role in this controversial issue — in the courtroom; and is Bobby the man of Judge Kittleson's dreams?
02/07/99
Season 3: Episode 14 - "Of Human Bondage"
An attorney friend asks for Bobby's help defending a prostitute accused of murder; Ellenor passionately defends an addict in need of a break; and, working on a divorce case, Jimmy teaches Rebecca an important lesson about leaving clients in a better place.
02/21/99
Season 3: Episode 15 - "Lawyers, Reporters, and Cockroaches"
Ellenor's dissatisfaction with her colleagues continues to grow; Bobby represents a restaurateur accused of operating an unsanitary establishment; and virtually ignoring it, Helen decides to give a cat-killer case its full nine lives.
02/28/99
Season 3: Episode 16 - "End Games"
A shocking series of events reopens the case against decapitator George Vogelman, and new evidence implicates Ellenor in the crime, sending the entire firm to "war" on her behalf. Meanwhile, Bobby learns that he is not the only object of Judge Kittleson's affections when she seeks his legal counsel.
03/07/99
Season 3: Episode 17 - "Target Practice"
When Eugene's son, Kendall, is caught in possession of drugs, his ex-wife blames the influence of Eugene's career on the boy; and Jimmy points the finger at a gun manufacturer for the murder of a teenage girl.
03/14/99
Season 3: Episode 18 - "Crossfire"
Emotions run high as Bobby represents Eugene in a custody battle for his son. Meanwhile, Helen must prosecute an accused car-jacker she suspects may be innocent.
03/28/99
Season 3: Episode 19 - "Closet Justice"
The firm must question everything they believe about the justice system when they have the opportunity to expose a policeman's error that could set a brutal murderer free.
04/18/99
Season 3: Episode 20 - "Home Invasions"
Bobby must come to Lucy's aid when she finds herself exposed on the Internet; and Helen tries to find the truth behind a father and son's involvement in a woman's murder.
04/25/99
Season 3: Episode 21 - "Infected"
Devastated that she was unable to convict Gordon Armbrust for mudering his wife, Helen is determined to make someone pay for the crime; Bobby takes on a client whose wife died mysteriously following routine surgery; and Rebecca takes on a pro bono murder case.
05/02/99
Season 3: Episode 22 - "Do Unto Others"
In this single-case episode, Eugene defends a rabbi accused of raping a woman with whom he had been having a secret affair.
05/09/99
Season 3: Episode 23 - "Happily Ever After"
One of the partners is brutally attacked, and in a frantic search for the assailant, firm members and ADA Helen Gamble make a series of shocking discoveries.