L.A. Law

Former partner Rosalind Shays files a sexual discrimination suit against McKenzie, Brackman. Kuzak faces a civil-rights activist inciting the press as well as a jury when he defends a white cop accused of shooting a black youth. Roxanne has more problems with her father.

Grace springs a surprise witness on Rosalind, but the case continues to go badly. Kuzak faces a biased judge and gets himself and Rollins thrown in jail. Stuart and Ann agree to a sexual hiatus. Douglas decides to end his relationship with his sexual surrogate.

Abby tackles the sad case of adoptive parents trying to return their violent adopted son. Gwen Taylor, Arnie's final fling before his marriage to Corrinne, comes to work at McKenzie, Brackman. Grace takes on a cop-shooting case with racial overtones.

Jonathan defends a white cop accused of shooting a black youth. Cara Jean Lamb outfoxes the firm and receives a job offer in return. Victor defends a humiliated professor suing a candid video show and becomes aware of his changing feelings towards Grace.

Ann tries to get Stuart removed from a stressful case while she represents a gay man denied visitation rights to his terminally ill lover. Arnie and Abby try to retrieve the money Benny donated to a questionable religious order. Grace debates a proposal from Jack Sollers. Murray paints the mens room and Benny gets a new roommate.

Brackman appears on the gameshow Wheel of Fortune. C.J. and old friend Tommy Mullaney fight a tobacco company in a cancer suit. Victor represents a murder victim's family against the physician who did not report evidence of her repeated spousal beatings. Stuart experiences romantic feelings for Gwen, his new secretary.

Grace fights the overseas shipment of a donated kidney destined for a wealthy patient to help out a close friend who needs it. Kuzak represents a flag-burning Vietnam vet. Murray and Benny pose as lawyers to get dates.

Murray succumbs as the holiday approaches. A smitten McKenzie volunteers himself and Grace to defend Rosalind Shays against S&L fraud charges. Victor appears against a doctor who claims he was fired because of his physical disfigurement.

Victor is finally named a partner, and begins a romance with Grace. Abby appears on the Donahue TV program to talk about her experiences with a handgun. Stuart freaks out during a rigorous paintgun competition with Douglas and Jonathan. Tommy represents the wife of a brain-damaged former boxer. Ann and Stuart reconcile.

Ann and Stuart discover the relationship between Leland and Rosalind Shays. Kuzak allows his feelings about Grace and Victor to influence his reactions to kidney broker affair. Victor defends an alleged sociopathic murderer he believes has lied under oath. Arnie takes on a difficult divorce case. Abby remains bitter over being passed over for partner.

Brackman takes temporary charge of the firm. Grace appears before a military tribunal to represent a soldier. Corrinne throws Arnie out after hearing of his infidelities from Roxanne. C.J. represents the owners of a reputed haunted house.

Kuzak defends a murder suspect with multiple personalities. McKenzie seeks help from Rosalind in keeping a major client. Arnie appears in family court, with Roxanne subpoenaed in his divorce case. C.J. and Abby share a romantic kiss.

Jonathan is brutalized by the police when he's spotted in a white neighborhood. A divorced Navaho father kidnaps his half-Caucasian son and seeks a ruling in a Native American court to allow him to raise the boy on his reservation.

Victor asks Grace to have dinner with his family but the evening ends in tragedy with a hit-and-run accident. Kuzak and Mullaney defend a woman and her lover against charges they murdered her much older husband. Zoey opposes a sleazy attorney representing a wealthy executive accused of raping a sixteen-year-old girl.

Kuzak and Mullaney are dealt a body blow when their client's lover agrees to testify against her. Rosalind proposes to an astonished Leland.

Victor rashly counsels a couple to refuse a settlement that would keep a hospital's malpractice a secret. Stuart represents a tax rebel. Zoey tries to prosecute two drive-by shooters. Grace discovers she's pregnant. Rosalind Shays suffers an unfortunate accident with the elevator.

McKenzie leaves Douglas as the senior partner as he sorts out his feelings. Grace and Victor mull over her unexpected pregnancy. Kuzak mounts a revolt and is asked to leave. Jonathan opposes a firm that replaced all of its Amercian executives with Japanese. Arnie is tormented by his inability to sustain a relationship.

Kuzak tries to lure away four McKenzie, Brackman lawyers, prompting Leland and Douglas to file suit against him. Mullaney defends a Christian Science couple accused of involuntary manslaughter in the death of their son.

Meyer has some drastic recommendations to keep the firm solvent. Michael drops his lawsuit when Benny has a depression-related breakdown. Douglas defends a transsexual model fired after her sex change operation was discovered. Tommy represents the family of a college football player made suicidal by steroid usage. Abby and Jonathan return to the firm, where Abby asks C.J. for a date.

Zoey must deal with a judge, once her law school professor, who appears to be losing control of his mental faculties. Jonathan allows his personal experiences to color his defense of a fearful man who led police on a chase after seeing a videotape of an alleged police beating. Arnie helps Benny recover. Abby seeks Ann's advice.

Kelsey and Sollers represent an obsessive woman charged with murdering her married lover. C.J. tries to defend a retiree accused of licking his Cane toads to get a high. Part-time arbitration judge McKenzie rules on a blues singer's suit.

Ann faces three months of disbarrment for revealing knowledge of a killer obtained through attorney-client privilege. Grace marries Victor, who is representing a an AIDS-stricken lawyer against an insurer. Arnie and Roxanne fall through the ceiling while engaged in a little romantic hanky panky. Abby is finally made a partner.