Hot-shot lawyer Nick Fallin normally deals with the world of high-powered business, but when he's sentenced to 1,500 hours of community service after being busted for drugs, he finds himself also working for the Child Legal Services. His first case is a boy who saw his father kill his mother, and Nick soon finds out things aren't as clear cut as they seem.

Nick pursues a suit against the pharmaceutical company whose drug may have caused a man to attack and kill his wife, but discovers that he may have to ask the man's son to lie on the stand.

Lawrence suffers from a disease that has confined him to a wheelchair, his mother is about to be jailed for prostitution, and his step-dad is a criminal. Can Nick find Lawrence's biological father before he's put into care?

Nick is sceptical when he is forced to represent a teenager who has accused her stepfather of rape, and a young steel mill heir hopes to file for bankruptcy when he runs the business into the ground.

Nick helps a gay teenager who has been kicked out of his house, and the firm needs Amanda to become a `secret weapon' when it takes on a sexual harassment case against a successful client.

A young woman claiming to be orphaned and underage forces Nick to represent her after they spend a night together, and in an effort to save CLS, Alvin solicits money from a rich socialite.