The Guardian

Nick fights to keep a small boy whose mother performs in a traveling carnival in DCF custody when he claims he was molested by the carnival owner.

Pressured to bring his own new business to the firm, Nick and Sadie Harper, Fallin & Fallin's new defense attorney associate, must get a town of 23 people to sign release settlements in order for Nick to land a huge coal manufacturer as a client.

Nick gets caught between father/son clients when the sale of their family department store becomes complicated with a class action lawsuit from several African American customers claiming discrimination.

Although a married couple wants Burton to sue a fertility clinic when their child is born black.

When Fallin & Fallin's credit line is called in, Nick tries to get a longtime Fallin client who owes millions to pay in full; Burton and Nick lose him to firm.

When Lulu's father decides to stay at her place, she and Nick agree they still have feelings for each other and agree to move in together.

As part of his community service, Nick is reassigned to help clean up an inner city park, where he meets a former LSP client he does not remember.

Lulu tells Nick she is pregnant, and he proposes to her.

When Fallin & Fallin evict squatters from land being used for future developments, the ripple effect at LSP is tremendous.

Nick and Suzanne Pell attempt to help Josh, a client at LSP, after he is locked in a closet for disciniplinary measures at a teen boot camp.

Nick must find a kid a home after his father, who was recently let go from Kane Industries, went crazy and shot his boss and several other coworkers in a conference room during a meeting.

After Lulu leaves Nick for having an affiar with Suzanne, Burton counsels Nick to seek help at rehab.

Alvin accuses Nick of rushing through the "steps" of working his recovery program.

Lulu informs Nick that their unborn baby has Downs Syndrome.

Nick attempts to help a teenage boy who beat up his mother after he walked in on her and his best friend in bed.

Nick helps a boy whose adoption is halted when the couple's own newborn baby is injured in the boy's presence.

When Burton is unable to physically help the police find Shannon, Nick takes his place and tracks her down through a prostitute, Dina, and her daughter Violet.

Alvin Masterson has a lot to do in so little time. He is getting married to Victoria Little and has ALS. Nick decides go to Los Angles.

Nick defends a sexually abused teenage boy who wants to protect his father from being implicated in the crime, even though it appears that his father was the abuser.

Nick and Jake battle wills when they try to get an elderly and sick client declared incompetent when his wife and partner disagree with the terms of a corporate sale.

Led by Jake, the firm's partners take a vote and kick Nick out of the partnership, despite Burton's attempts to keep his son's name on the door.

Having been forced from Fallin & Fallin, Nick takes another corporate law at a competing firm, but Burton questions if corporate law is truly Nick's passion.