A streetwise young woman originally agreed to act as a surrogate mother for a wealthy Toronto couple, but when she changes her mind, Carrie represents her to give her a chance to keep her baby.

Leon's client not only opposes the Star Wars research program, but when she learns her husband is trying to sell her medical research program to an American company, fights to get it back. Chuck and Lisa are thrilled when they find out that she's pregnant.

Chuck agrees to defend his friend's teenaged son who is charged in a brutal gang beating of a gay man, but the youth refuses to giev the names of the others who were involved in the attack.

Carrie has trouble getting her life together after the husband who is charged with beating a client of hers attacks her at the office and she has to testify against him in court. Leon makes friends with a young Jamaican boy named Rollie and ends up learning a lot from him.

Leon represents a doctor who has been charged with negligence in the death of a young girl during a routine operation.

Carrie represents a man upset with the witness protection program. [1987]

Chuck is taken to trial over an incident in a young woman's hotel room...she claims that they slept together, he claims she kissed him and he turned her down.

Carrie finally comes clean about her relationship with Jean-Marc to her co-workers.

Carrie is distraught when a problem client commits suicide, and her confident demeanor crumbles in the face of mounting work pressure.

Chuck's client, Monica Zubrekas, is suing the Lost and Lonely Hearts Club for setting her up on a less than desirable blind date, seeking damages against the business.

In a divorce case, Leon represents a stand- up comedian who is countersuing his wife for loss of humour.

Chuck manoeuvres his way into becoming president of a gold mining company, but after recklessly mortgaging his home to raise funds, he learns a prospector is making a claim on the company's most promising strike.

Leon takes the case of Jimmy and Carol, a young mentally-handicapped couple who want to live together despite her mother's preventing them from even seeing each other.

Leon defends an elderly client accused of destroying a beautiful Christmas display. Jean Marc tells Carrie he's going to Montreal for Christmas to be with his family. Lisa and Chuck's son, Adam, is born.

Disconsolate and angry about the suspicious shooting death of his brother by a prison guide, fellow inmate Tony Azzarello seeks advice from Carrie Barr.

Leon is asked to defend Ray Gilson, an American purse snatcher. Charged with first-degree murder in Florida, the black youth faces almost certain extradition and possibly the electric chair.

Chuck finds himself at odds with his partners and his wife when he represents the head of an anti-abortion group who has caused Joan Elliot to miscarry during a demonstration outside an abortion clinic.

Judge John Caldwell, who Carrie earlier accused of racism, hires her to defend him on a murder charge.

Leon is horrified when a TV newscaster names a juvenile offender he is representing on air which is not permitted under Canadian law.

Chuck's friend, Walter, wants Chuck to help him acquire funding for condos; Olivia's client is a wheelchair-bound actor who was rejected for a commercial for a handicapped-aid agency; Carrie agrees to go out with Nick.

A morbid young man, Dave involves his school friend Rob in the making of a video. But the project ends in tragedy when Dave is killed and Rob is charged with criminal negligence.

Conspiracy, sabotage and betrayal lead to tragedy for Leon's client a radical environmentist intent on saving a forest from destruction by a greedy land developer.

Carrie struggles with her personal and legal ethics while defending an unbalanced religious fanatic charged with murdering a prositute.

When Leon represents an old friend with AIDS in a divorce case, he expects the worst, but not from his partners. While his wife is out of town,Chuck asks Olivia out for a dinner, but at the end she gets an unexpected brush off. When Lisa returns, her and Chuck settle on trial separation.

As a challenge to each other, Olivia and Carrie swap cases to see if they can handle the types of cases the other usually handles. The results aren't what either one expected.

Carrie's client Wendel ""Sky"" Walker is a talented basketball star who may lose his college scholarship and a chance at the NBA as a result of a drug charge. Leon negotiates custody of a violin in a divorce settlement. Sparks fly between Chuck and Olivia as they represent a computer programer.

Chuck and Olivia try to help a young Mennonite who's been swindled out of five million dollars, but face stiff opposition from the con man's lawyer and the Mennonite community itself. Leon's defiance over the treatment of the homeless lands him in jail.

Carrie finally gets to meeet Nick's mother but suddenly she and Nick face the end of their relationship when Carrie proves that Mario Pestano, a father figure to Nick, is a corrupt cop.

Chuck becomes emotionally involved when he represents Angeline Chante, a 15-year-old model suing her mother. Leon helps a woman enforce her sister's living will. Olivia tells Carrie that she and Chuck are lovers.

Leon represents Ryan Lewis in an official-guardian case that calls into question the ancient Ojibway ritual of Dreamquest.

Carrie defends her young cousin Ricky Palmer twice before learning that he has been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic.

Chuck's latest get-rich-quick scheme ends disasrrously when he is accused of conflict of interest and charged with fraud over a shady business deal. Olivia and Gloria expose a puppymill.

Tensions between Leon and Chuck esculate when they learn they are representing opposing sides in a land-development dispute.

Chuck's reckless business deals and his steamy affair with Olivia compel his estranged wife to apply for sole custody of their 2-year-old son.

When Barr, Robinovitch and Tchobanian teeter on the verge of bankruptcy, two solutions present themselves.

Carrie defends Sarah Melchuck, a young policewoman charged in the shooting death of a black man.

Against all odds, Leon fights a malpractice suit against a major manufacturer of contact lenses, on behalf of blinded professional photographer.

Carrie defends university professor Diane Abbot, a stoical single mother charged with criminal negligence in the accidental death of her infant son.

Chuck and Olivia's collaboration on the case causes a lot of professional and personal tensions.

Olivia runs into trouble when she agrees to represent a former boyfriend Steven Hines, who is trying to sell a documentary that could expose a powerful businessman's many criminal activities. Chuck's jealousy over Steven's visit drives him to have a short affair with a local socialite.

Tension and danger mount as Leon and Nick join forces to uncover proof that a champion Olympic rower committed a murder six years ago, and thereby clear the name of Leon's former client who was sent to jail for the crime.

Carrie agonizes over the fate of her client, a teenage gang member, accused of a fatal stabbing.

Chuck is implicated in an insider-trading scheme with the wealthy father of Jennifer, his new 23-year-old admirer.

Carrie asks for beeper surveillance for her client Leah Davis after fighting to liberal custody, but when Leah skips town, Carrie becomes the legal guardian of her daughter, Kim.

Chuck represents Jennifer's friend, a student who claims that she wrote a book with her late professor and wants acknowledgement.

Leon agrees to represent Alana in her divorce trial.

Leon hasn't seen his father for ten years, but the man shows up just before Leon and Alana's wedding, and manages to get himself arrested.

Chuck asks Olivia to represent a South African immigrant.

Just a few days before the wedding Leon takes on the immigration case of a Guatamalan waiter, but it turns into a criminal case when he is accused of robbing the restaurant he works in.

A newspaper opens itself up to libel charges when they accuse a wealthy Italian businessman of being involved in organized crime. Carrie takes a case where her client has been accused of arson. Olivia has to help her client keep something hidden.

Nick's partner is murdered, and Nick himself ends up in the hospital, which worries Carrie. Not only that, but Carrie gets tangled up in an ethical dilemma, and considers leaving criminal law. Things between Chuck and Olivia heat up when she admits to him how she feels.

Leon champaigns the rights of factory workers who face layoffs due to the Canada-U.S. free-trade agreement.