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- Alice De Raey is a newly minted attorney who joins the chaotic world of criminal justice in Toronto. She's exposed to the seamier side of life, the backroom deals that make the system work accompanied by the usual eccentric characters.
- It's Alice's first day on the job and her boss is nowhere to be seen. She's in over her head with name misspellings, family battles and public mischief. With a little advice from defence lawyer Elliot Sacks and duty counsel Zona Robinson, Alice manages to squeak through the day.
- Alice defends a girl just out of high school on drug-trafficking charges. Saxe's client is charged with leaving his business partner in an embarrassing situation. James goes camping.
- Alice's cases include a potentially abusive father and a woman who struck her mother-in-law. Sacks defends a man accused of beating up a poet.
- Alice's first trip into Mental Health Court teaches her how hard it is for the justice system to help the mentally ill. Elliot tries to help a one-legged Jamaican man arrested for attacking the neighbourhood girls who routinely taunt him.
- Elliot deals with a spoiled client and his flaky girlfriend, while Alice struggles to convince the Crown to have compassion for a former drug addict and a suspected terrorist.
- Judge Malone wages war against the City of Toronto and Alice has doubts about her clients innocence.
- Alice tries to convince a couple to make a sacrifice for the sake of their family. Elliot finds himself defending a secretary who hogties her boss to fake a robbery.
- Alice's client is charged with abusing and neglecting his sick father. Alice also represents a 65-year old crack addict who is not interested in being rehabilitated. Elliot uses all of his creativity to defend a high profile client.
- Alice balances two clients, Elliot wars with the Crown's rigid approach to sexual assault cases, Anthony defends a woman charged with assaulting her lesbian lover and new Duty Counsel Joe Pretak finds himself grappling with four Asian co-accused.
- Alice deals with a case involving racism while also battling a media circus surrounding a child abduction case. Meanwhile, James and Nancy are confounded by the court's rigid approach to domestic abuse cases.
- Joe tries to get a career criminal one last chance. Homeless intellectual Mr. Jackson appears before the colourful Judge Malcolm Fraser. Elliot stretches his already-battered legal objectivity to the limit.
- Nancy's client claims he was a hostage. Alice deals with a family with an absent father. Elliot defends a repeat offender. James gets involved with a former professor who lost his mental faculties.
- Alice defends a former police officer, and a university student who allegedly assaulted police officers. James handles a potty-mouthed mother accused of striking her daughter's boyfriend. Elliot's client claims to have had a relationship with Elliot's mother. Nancy tracks down a grocery thief.
- Continuing from the previous episode, Alice continues to work with Fred after Fran leaves their home. Nancy helps a man with schizophrenia. Elliot defends a woman accused of forcing her girlfriend to be a sex slave.