The lawyers wrestle with their conscience when they defend a doctor guilty of performing an illegal abortion.

A cop is killed on a raid at Black Panther HQ for drugs and weapons in Watts, but the police may have the wrong man. The firm represents the boy at the fathers urging.

Nichols agrees to defend a decorated Vietnam veteran, now living a counterculture lifestyle, who is charged with murdering a platoon mate whom he was lifelong friends with. But though he says he is innocent, he refuses to tell exactly what did happen or why.

Brian defends a client who is accused of practicing medicine without a licenses when one of his patients dies even though he has military training as a Vietnam combat medic.

The firm defends a woman accused of killing a man she met through a matchmaking service, not knowing he was already married.

A wealthy client hires Neil to check into his own background to head off a corporate probe. This leads to Neil being suspected by the police of the murder of a man whom his client may have taken the identity of. Or was it the other way around?

Merrell Hyland is found dead in his home and wife Joyce is arrested after signing a confession yet recalls nothing the next day. Brian Darrell takes the lead in her defense but a resident swami complicates matters.

Nichols and Brian take the case of a young Indian charged with killing a fellow tribesman at a construction site. The young man refuses to tell just what happened. So, at first, do five other tribesmen who are believed to have witnessed the killing, but they later suddenly change their minds without explanation.