The Guardian

A 911 operator takes a frantic phone call from Nick: Mandy is on the floor, and not breathing.

After his adoptive father disowns him, Nick becomes the guardian to a true monster:Ronnie Wagner, a thirteen year old boy who killed then raped his adoptive mother.

Controversy brews around Burton and the future of his judgeship after Caldwell commits suicide at work before the FBI can question him

Nick and Burton form the new Fallin & Fallin, and represent the hospital in which a male nurse who worked the oncology ward confessed to killing 19 terminal patients while on duty.

Nick becomes the medical guardian of Bryant, a young boy whose mother is in jail and an aunt who no longer can handle him.

Nick represents Dale, a young boy undergoing chemotherapy for leukemia, who's only chance for survival is a bone marrow transplant.

Nick represents Andrea Coffey, a girl placed with her godparents after her mother died, whose brother was killed by a dog outside a junk yard during a court sanctioned visitation with their junkie father Lou

Nick helps Hugh Williams, a 33 year old retarded man with anger issues (whom Nick grew up), save his somewhat ill dog from being put to sleep at the city pound after the dog bites a police officer

Nick represents James' nephew Levi after he gets jumped in the school kitchen and refuses to uphold the student honor code by revealing which gang members are liable

Nick represents Pittsburgh County, the hospital Brian works for, after a patient dies under Brian's care during a routine gall bladder operation.

After Nick gets a judge to allow 18 year old Jesse Caputo to stay in the system until his 21st birthday so he can afford to go to college, he gets Jesse a job at Fallin.

Nick's the guardian of a young boy in the midst of a custody battle between a supposedly abusive father and a mother whose own innocence begins to look suspect.

Nick takes the lead with Fallin's newest client, Caroline Osborne, who is moving her corporate jet leasing company from Philly to Pittsburgh

At an LSP benefit honoring his father, Nick meets a waitress (Sam) who is really a transvestite

Fallin & Fallin represent Rob Kagen, Nick's college roommate, in securing a patent and funding for a new device implanted in a watch that tracks your whereabouts through satellite

Lulu asks Nick to take over her case and be the Guardian ad Litem for a baby with Krabbe's disease, a terminal and incurable disease.

Lulu recovery from her car accident is complicated when there is swelling in her brain; Brian and Caroline disagree over Lulu's treatment.

Claire, a young, wide eyed lawyer joins Fallin & Fallin part time and assists Burton on a city case in which a rookie shoots and paralyzes a man who clearly didn't pose any physical threat during a drug bust

Fallin & Fallin agree to represent Tim "The Mechanic" Dohanic, a professional boxer, after he is released from prison.

While Nick and Lulu battle it out on opposite sides of a legal case involving a church and eminent domain, they have impromptu sex in public places

After Nick and Lulu are caught by Alvin having sex in the LSP conference room, Lulu tries to gain back some of her credibility by hosting a dinner party with Nick to convince her co workers that they are a legitimate couple.

In an attempt to combat declining business, Nick leads the charge in hiring Clay Simms, a criminal defense attorney, much to the chagrin of Jake, his former classmate.

After Nick and Lulu have a disagreement over her interviewing for a job in Berkeley, he errupts in the courtroom and is sentenced to anger management sessions.