Family Law - Season 3

The firm moves to Venice Beach and hires two new associates. Also, Lynn fights for a cancer patient's right to take unapproved medication; Joe realizes he's overworked and hands off a custody case to another lawyer, which leads to tragedy; and Danni searches for Raphael after he runs away from his foster home.

Randi represents a woman fighting to regain custody of her two children who were taken from her while she was in prison; Danni finds Raphael and tries once more to adopt him; Joe angers everyone with the amount of pro bono cases he's taken on.

Lynn defends a 14-year-old girl accused of spray painting hate messages on a building; Emily represents parents who want to keep their teen daughter with cerebral palsy out of high school and keep her in a special-education facility against the girl's wishes; Joe tries to help an abused woman from being deported because he believes her violent husband will kill her if she returns to her homeland.

Naoise defends a 15-year-old boy accused of taking violent measures to defend his neighborhood from drug dealers and prostitutes; Joe tries to help a 16-year-old orphan gain custody of his two younger siblings.

Joe is badly burned when he rescues a 15-year-old from a house fire that the teen accidentally started when he tried to make his own drugs from a book he purchased. Rex then attempts to sue the book's publisher.

Lynn intervenes when 13 children from one family are removed from their home after a case worker declares that the parents can't take care of them all; Randi reluctantly helps a man who wants his ex-wife to continue making large child support payments despite the fact that she plans to quit her job to have another baby.

A friend reveals to Lynn that he cheated on his wife and now he wants Lynn to represent him in a paternity suit; a mother is charged with child abuse after she spanks her son in a dressing room.

An Arab-American who works for the Department of Transportation's hazardous-materials division is arrested for espionage after he takes home a computer disk that contains classified information. But Joe argues that he's being targeted simply because he's an Arab.

Randi defends a woman whose children died from heat exposure while locked in a car; Joe helps a mom whose kids were taken away because she left them home alone while she worked; Lynn and Rex consider having an affair.

Emily aids a woman who wants a divorce on the grounds that her husband committed adultery by carrying on a relationship with a woman over the Internet; Lynn defends a 40-year-old friend who is arrested for having sex with a 15-year-old boy; Randi starts dating a judge and then discovers he has a secret past that could end his career.

A man sues his ex-wife for fraud when he learns the two boys he raised are not his biological sons; divorcing parents argue over who will get their son on Christmas day; a tall, skinny man sues a department store after the owner refuses to hire him as an elf.

Rex represents a bipolar 8-year-old boy who was given up by his adoptive parents because of his violent outbursts; Lynn and Naoise assist a priest in his efforts to gain custody of a son he never knew existed until the boy's mother died.

Naoise is seriously wounded when she gets caught in a shoot-out between rival gangs and Lynn sues the police department for failing to respond quickly; Viveca helps an 85-year-old grandmother try to gain custody of her grandson.

A woman who is only 23 weeks pregnant wants doctors to induce labor so stem cells from her baby can be used to save her 8-year-old son, who's dying from aplastic anemia. But the doctors are hesitant because the infant will likely die.

Lynn represents a deadbeat dad who is thrown into jail after a judge learns that his wife is pregnant (because fathering another child is a violation of his parole); Viveca decides whether she's going to have Joe's baby.

Vivica quits the firm in order to oppose Joe in court over a case involving standardized tests for teachers; Rex and Lynn represent a 12-year-old genius who wants the right to leave home to accept a scholarship at M.I.T.

The parents of a girl involved in a cult ask Lynn to help them stop a mass wedding in which their daughter is to be married to a stranger; Joe fights a restraining order that prevents him from seeing an 8-year-old boy he mentored while the kid's dad was in prison.

Lynn reluctantly represents a polygamist with five wives who is fighting a former spouse for custody of their two children; Randi helps a couple battle an HMO that refuses to pay for an expensive treatment that their dying son needs.

An 18-year-old black honors student sues a topflight college for discrimination when he's refused admission, even though he is academically qualified; one of Rex's friends is accused of raping a co-worker, but he claims the sex was consensual; and Emily dates a man she met on the Internet.

Randi defends her cousin (Delta Burke), who is accused of abusing her elderly mother; Joe aids a 16-year-old father's fight for custody of his infant daughter; Cassie is suspended from school for writing an article condemning the school for creating a day-care facility for the kids of unwed teens.

In the series finale, a young woman who promised to give her newborn to an adopting couple reneges on the agreement after giving birth; a bride refuses to sign a prenuptial agreement just minutes before her wedding; Lynn and Rex fly to Nevada in an attempt to have their marriage annulled; Randi searches for a dying client's lost love.