10/08/00
Season 5: Episode 1 - "Summary Judgments"
Bobby defends prominent investment banker and close friend Scott Wallace (Bruce Davison) who is accused of murdering his wife after a heated argument; while Ellenor and Lindsay represent a couple who claim their children developed neurological defects from playing on a swing set treated with a toxic chemical.
10/15/00
Season 5: Episode 2 - "Germ Warfare"
Bobby looks everywhere for new evidence that might help overturn the guilty verdict against his close friend, Scott Wallace, while Ellenor and Lindsay try to convince a jury that the EPA is responsible for the Jamison children's illnesses.
10/22/00
Season 5: Episode 3 - "Officers of the Court"
Feeling she was blackmailed in the Jamison v. the EPA case, Ellenor takes a major risk — both for herself and the entire firm — by filing a formal complaint against the judge. Meanwhile, Jimmy's attempt to help his drug-addicted client leads him to make a dubious deal with the D.A.
10/29/00
Season 5: Episode 4 - "Appeal and Denial"
A plaintiff surprises everyone by recanting a seemingly solid accusation. Back at the office, Lucy prompts the revelation of a much different kind of surprise.
11/05/00
Season 5: Episode 5 - "We Hold These Truths"
Bobby works overtime to prepare for Scott Wallace's trial. Eugene is assigned to a seemingly guilty defendant, while Jimmy gets in trouble for speaking his mind to a judge with a ridiculous habit of lecturing defendants in court.
11/12/00
Season 5: Episode 6 - "Show and Tell"
Scott Wallace goes to court a second time, seeking to overturn his conviction for murdering his wife. This episode is shot in the style of a television documentary, featuring candid interviews with the major players.
11/19/00
Season 5: Episode 7 - "Brothers' Keepers"
Bobby defends a Pakistani man, living in the U.S., who's accused of commissioning his brother to murder his adulterous wife. Meanwhile, Ellenor shocks the firm when she announces that she is pregnant.
11/26/00
Season 5: Episode 8 - "Mr. Hinks Goes to Town"
Lindsay defends a serial killer who claims that he is guilty. A psychologist, however, believes that the man is delusional, and only confessed to get attention.
12/10/00
Season 5: Episode 9 - "The Deal"
A client of Bobby's admits that he has information about the high-profile kidnapping of a wealthy little girl. Meanwhile, both William Hinks and Scott Wallace return seeking resolution
12/17/00
Season 5: Episode 10 - "Friends and Ex-Lovers"
Despite a restraining order, William Hinks continues to harass Lindsay, as more questions arise as to whether or not he's the real serial killer. Meanwhile, Bobby blames himself for Scott Wallace's latest offense.
01/07/01
Season 5: Episode 11 - "An Early Frost"
After Scott Wallace kills his friend, Jimmy becomes a witness for the prosecution. Bobby, meanwhile, is still defending Wallace. Lindsay is convinced that serial killer William Hinks has claimed another victim, and fears for her own life. To protect her, Bobby takes matters into his own hands.
01/14/01
Season 5: Episode 12 - "Payback"
Bobby is arrested for conspiring to murder serial killer William Hinks. The entire firm, with Eugene at the helm, must now rally to defend him. Meanwhile, Rebecca discovers foul play in the wrongful death suit of a friend's husband.
02/04/01
Season 5: Episode 13 - "The Thin Line"
Tensions at the firm are at an all-time high when Bobby is tried for the murder of William Hinks. Bobby is acquitted, though there is little to celebrate when a mysterious cassette recorder is sent to the office. Lucy and Rebecca hear Hinks' voice on the recorder, just before it triggers an explosion.
02/11/01
Season 5: Episode 14 - "The Day After"
Unconscious and in critical need of blood, Rebecca's fate is left to a higher power when her mother refuses to allow a transfusion because of the family's religious beliefs. Bobby is awestruck when Lindsay gives birth to their son a month early.
02/18/01
Season 5: Episode 15 - "Awakenings"
Ellenor's chosen "sperm donor," Michael Hale (Ted McGinley), has second thoughts about the agreement over the rearing of her soon-to-be-born child. Meanwhile, Rebecca emerges from the I.C.U. and gets lost in the hospital. Additionally, Helen prepares to prosecute the rape of an eleven-year-old girl.
03/11/01
Season 5: Episode 16 - "Gideon's Crossover"
Helen prosecutes an accused rapist, while doing her best to keep the 11-year-old victim off the witness stand. Meanwhile, Ellenor has complications with her pregnancy and is treated by Dr. Ben Gideon, (Gideon's Crossing).
03/18/01
Season 5: Episode 17 - "What Child Is This?"
Bobby and Jimmy employ the firm's notorious "Plan B" strategy in a last-ditch effort to save a client accused of raping and murdering his teen-aged stepdaughter. Bobby makes a case that the client's wife is actually the murderer, and the accused client is declared not guilty. Meanwhile, Ellenor goes into labor with only a panicky Helen Gamble there to assist her.
04/01/01
Season 5: Episode 18 - "The Confession"
Helen Gamble uses trickery to coerce a confession from an alleged carjacker represented by Jimmy Berluti. While Gamble feels that her means were legal and necessary to get a dangerous man off the streets, Berluti and Eugene disagree and ask a federal judge to rule the confession inadmissible, a decision that would set the carjacker free.
04/22/01
Season 5: Episode 19 - "Home of the Brave"
Lindsay presses Richard Bay to explain a questionable arrest of her client, who is an illegal alien. She ultimately discovers that the police planted drugs on her client, in order to force him to testify in a murder trial. The client refuses to testify, as the murderer is his own brother, and allows himself to be deported to Colombia. Meanwhile, Lucy's actions as a rape counselor are called into question during a date rape trial.
04/29/01
Season 5: Episode 20 - "The Case of Harland Bassett"
Eugene and Jimmy agree to help the mistake-prone Harland Bassett (Ernie Sabella) in the case of a young girl who developed liver damage from an antibiotic. With the odds stacked against them, the trio take on a politically-tied, deep-pocketed drug manufacturer.
05/06/01
Season 5: Episode 21 - "Poor Richard's Almanac"
Bobby and Ellenor defend Doug Cahill, a ruthless drug dealer, who is being prosecuted for murder by Helen Gamble and Richard Bay. Bobby and Ellenor suspect that their client is guilty, especially after Richard is attacked outside of his own home. The attacker tells Bay to deliberately lose the case, and threatens him with a gun. Richard refuses to back down, and wins a guilty verdict. As the episode closes, Richard is shot while starting his car, and left for dead.
05/13/01
Season 5: Episode 22 - "Public Servants"
On the season finale, Helen seeks vengeance for Richard Bay's murder, and Bobby questions his role in the death.
Meanwhile, Jimmy and Rebecca are defending an apparently innocent murder suspect when they discover that he was once acquitted for a similar murder.