The Guardian

Nick's first child advocacy case involves deciding the proper custody of young Hunter Reed, who has just witnessed his father kill his mother.

Nick must help young Hunter Reed choose whether or not to lie to secure his father's freedom.

Nick must represent the handicapped son of a prostitute and find the prostitute's client, who fathered the boy.

Nick is asked to represent a 15 year-old girl who accuses her cop father of raping her.

Fallin and Associates take on a sexual harassment case while Nick works to get a homeless gay teen off the streets.

Nick is duped in a sexual encounter with a mature looking seventeen year old girl, who he ends up having to represent in an adoption case.

Burton Fallin is forced to defend his company when associate Jake Straka, hits and kills a fellow lawyer, while driving his car delivering some files for the law firm.

Nick becomes emotionally attached to a terminally ill 12 year old girl, who cannot get the heart transplant she needs to live, until she is legally adopted.

Alvin asks Nick to represent Barbara's son, when the teenager is arrested and busted for drug possession.

One of Burton's partners leaves the firm and immediately commences trying to lure away the best and brightest a Fallin & Associates, including Nick.

Alvin goes up against Burton Fallin in court, when he agrees to defend his ex wife (Polly Draper) in a wrongful termination case.

Nick begins work at Kirk & McGee and his first responsibility is to oversee a deal which involves a father essentially giving his son his $40 million company.

Burton and Nick represent a family's interest when their daughter is killed in a scuba diving accident.

Nick's aunt and cousin come back into Nick and Burton's lives in order to have Burton broker a deal to sell the aunt's company.

Nick represents a drug addicted mother as she attempts to regain custody of her children.

Burton and Nick have been having a difficult time trying to resolve a labor dispute at a local factory, as the union leaders refuse to recommend the new, and seemingly fair, contract.

Nick attempts to help two young brothers stay together in foster care when a prospective adoptive parent only wants to take one of the boys.

Nick begins the legal process of declaring a woman's missing daughter dead, to enable the mother to have access to the daughter's trust fund.

In exchange for covering up of some technical violations of his probation, Nick agrees to help his probation officer purchase a strip club with his girlfriend.

Nick and Lulu discover that two homeless teenagers have been living in Lulu's newly purchased home when they hear the screams of the young girl giving birth.

Nick represents the biggest developer in the city who wants to buy a controversial piece of land for development.

Burton shocks the firm, and his son Nick when after being appointed a Federal judge, he announces that former Senator Caldwell will assume leadership of the firm.