The Practice

The attorneys prepare for Lindsay’s appeal after she’s sentenced to life in prison; a new attorney, Jamie Stringer, is hired to work at the firm; Berluti is approached by a woman who kidnapped an infant from a hospital many years earlier.

Lindsay's murder conviction tries rebecca, who's handling the appeal to the supreme judicial court; Jimmy's kidnapping case turns confrontational, in and out of court.

A resolution reached in lindsay's murder conviction has emotional repercussions; And first amendment issues figure oddly in jamie's first trial, the defense of an accused flasher.

Religious freedom figures in a criminal case. On trial: A christian science couple charged with the murder of their ill child, whose parents' faith forbids medical treatment.

Political, religious and moral issues surface in a trial involving medical research. Also, lindsay, now on her own, defends a client whose singing gives a neighbor the blues.

A sexual abuse case involving victims of a former priest embroils eugene; A nuisance suit filed by ex-Lovers escalates into violence that rattles an already shaky lindsay.

An accused molestor's defense rattles bobby, who's also unnerved by the reproach of a venerable priest; A case involving animal sacrifices embroils ellenor.

Eugene and Ellenor grow increasingly frustrated with an airhead client accused of murdering her boyfriend; Lindsay is asked to represent an airline attempting to prohibit Arabs from flying on its planes.

A cop-Killing case rattles bobby, whose anemic defense of an unsavory client leads helen to suspect that he's "Tanking the trial"; A drug bust raises search-And-Seizure issues.

The homicide trial of an adulterous md engages ellenor and eugene; The defense of a disturbed client charged with murder absorbs lindsay, who's privy to a jarring confession.

The attorneys represent a family suing the bottling industry after their son dies of alcoholism; Ellenor convinces a woman on death row not to take her medication in an effort to spare her life on grounds of insanity.

In a highly unethical move, Bobby threatens to sue the Berrys if they refuse to accept the bottling industry’s settlement figure; Ellenor attempts to keep the state from executing her mentally-ill client after she is given psychiatric medication.

Jimmy's teen crush is now a client in dire legal straits. A tenacious new lawyer joins the team.

A wrongful imprisonment suit occupies bobby, whose client spent 15 years in jail for a killing he didn't commit; A case involving a youth's soccer injury tests claire's mettle in court.

A protective mother provides alibis for her only son, an accused killer. Also: A disturbed former client jarringly reenters lindsay's life.

Psychopaths plague lindsay and helen. The latter is sued by an acquitted killer for defaming his mother; The former is hounded by a deviant she once defended.

Ellenor believes an insanity plea is the best bet for a woman charged with killing her brother-in-law; Jamie has personal reasons for representing a rape victim.

The death penalty comes under scrutiny in a controversial hearing centering on a troubled teen and admitted killer, whose case parallels bobby's reinvolvement with a former lover.

A crazed fame seeker abducts cbs ceo les moonves in a ploy for TV time. Fox exec sandy grushow has a cameo.

Jamie becomes a witness against an accused rapist whom Eugene is defending; Lindsay turns over privileged information when she suspects a client of murder.

Berluti represents a girl suing over an accident that left her in a wheelchair; Eugene and Jamie find themselves attracted to each other while defending a woman accused of murdering her husband; Lindsay decides she wants a divorce.

Bobby informs his colleagues that he’s quitting the firm; Berluti and Rebecca defend a man accused of murdering his brother’s wife; things heat up between Eugene and Jamie.