Tue, Jan 7, 2003
Burton accepts the city as a bulk client and loses a corporate client Nick and Jake had been pursing for months, in part because he misses a critical meeting. Lulu feels stalked and finds shelter with Nick and Kim, but still turns back to Brian. Burton sympathizes with a widower whose hobby, an aviary, is contested by the neighbors as a serious nuisance, but still wins the case for the city. Gentle gay gentleman Gavin Putinski, who feared from the start that he would be discriminated against, ends up losing unfairly, due to a hostile judge and Nick being overburdened. Nick tries to make clear to young Kyle Plunkett he's entitled to live with his father Bill, but the boy's mother keeps poisoning his mind with terrible lies.
Tue, Jan 21, 2003
A deal Nick and Jake worked on for months to land a major client is badly compromised when Burton blatantly fails to attend one crucial meeting. A teenage relative of James is offered a rap record contract. His guardian refuses, but the boy is reluctant to have his manager appointed instead. An adolescent refuses to be adopted by the WASP Martin couple out of reverse racism.
Tue, Feb 4, 2003
Nick takes the case of young Timothy Silber, who must choose whether he wants to remain living with his deceased father's cross-dressing partner, Sam Farrell, his trusted, loving "stepmother" or to go live with his unfamiliar, blood-uncle Hank Silver. Burton's platonic live-in, Mary Gessler, with whom Burton wants a relationship and who works at Fallin and Fallin, accepts a date with one of Burton's clients, Frank DeScala. Lulu's husband, Brian Olson, wants to leave to accept a good job in Columbus after cashing in a settlement from the Pittsburgh hospital that fired him and is represented by the Fallins. An auction prize-box mix-up convinces Brian that Lulu cares more for Nick than for Brian.