Street Legal

Leon becomes passionately involved in the Hellbrum mining case when he is convinced that management neglect caused the death of 14 miners. Laura defends Rob's cousin, an officer accused of assaulting a prostitute. Chuck worries about the firm. Olivia helps a jounalist get his stolen property back from the police.

Olivia represents a woman journalist denied a news anchor position; Leon defends survivors of a mine disaster; Chuck's plans for the firm are rejected

In a final act of desperation, abused wife Joan Millman kills her husband. Leon asks Chuck to defend her; Alana and Leon need professional help for Ben.

Leon takes the case of a woman terrorized by her husband; Rob handles a heated real-estate dispute. Laura comes back to work. Paul apologizes to Alana. Theo comes to Rob looking for business advice. The RCMP is asking questions about Jack Driscoll. Chuck gives Olivia an emerald he brought from Brazil for her wedding ring and tells her he's opened a $50,000 account in the Caymans with money Jack Driscoll gave him.

A cross-border cigarette smuggler accused of murder claims he's been set up by police. Chuck goes to his defense... for the right price.

Olivia loses her talk show job in a scuffle with the network when she represents a television journalist who refuses to name his source.

Chuck defends a stockbroker accused of being a pimp; Ben moves in with Leon and Alana; Malony visits Laura in the hospital. Rob's client, Pauline, is accused of stealing her former boss' clients; Olivia appears on a morning show and is offered a permanent spot.

Malony's continued interference in the Adam Ruskin case leads to violence, and Laura is put in serious danger.

Laura takes the parole case of child molester Adam Ruskin. Malony, meanwhile, is working overtime to prevent Ruskin's release.

Leon fights for Iona Davis, a nurse who claims she was passed up for promotion because of racism on the part of her supervisor.

Laura takes the case of a fifteen year old boy accused of murdering his abusive mother, as Alana presides. Rob's relationship with his client prove to be more difficult than he expected. Leon is approached by the Human Rights Commission to be adjudicator. Jack Driscoll questions Chuck about his professional ethics. Leon and Alana consider adopting an older child. Valerie Sanducci starts working in the office.

Olivia and Laura are hot in competition, each scrambling to beat the other's earnings.

Eva Paredes' testimony exonerates Leon, and his disbarment is revoked.

Chuck and Olivia are returning from their honeymoon to a crazily busy office. Leon was desperately trying to find Eva but wasn't succeeding. Laura expresses her frustration by confronting Olivia about her contribution to the firm. And Olivia takes their competition to a next level by proposing that whoever doesn't make $60,000 in three month has to leave the firm. Leon is in luck because Eva makes her way to Toronto and gives him hope to be reinstated to the bar.

Rob represents the ex-wife of Russell's funeral home director. Olivia turns to Chuck for help when an explosion injures a crew member and Tom is charged with criminal negligence. Chuck asks Olivia to marry him, but Olivia turns him down. Dillon, much improved, and Mercedes continue to see each other. Malony becomes increasing possessive of Laura. Leon receives notice he's under investigation from the Law Society.

Eva Paredes persuades Leon to represent a young Guatemalan soldier who claims he was forces to serve in the army against his will and is now seeking asylm in Canada.

Chuck's winning streak gets him hired by a top corporate lawyer whose son has been charged with a racially- motivated killing of a black police officer.

Chuck presents Olivia with a bill in for losses due to her interference in the Bedal case.

Rob discovers some disturbing facts from his family's past when he tries to help his schizophrenic brother.

Laura helps a family, wrongly accused of sexual abuse, to keep their child.

As Leon attempts to gain asylum for a feisty Mexican terrorist/ refugee, his biggest challenge is to keep her from indicting herself in the process.

Olivia shops for two million dollars when a major investor pulls out of her movie.

Chuck steals a high- profile case from Laura, but finds himself caught between his conscience and his duty as a lawyer.

The future of Leon and Alana's marriage is in doubt as they argue over having children.

Olivia reveals her new career as a movie producer and argues with Chuck over the impact her plans will have on Emily.

Rob accepts an assignment from Christian Pevril, one of the richest, most powerful men in the country, and who expects Rob to be as ruthless as necessary to get him what he wants.

Olivia gives birth to a baby girl. Chuck and Laura discover their attraction is mutual.

Olivia awaits the birth of her child and tries to sort out the future of her relationship with Chuck. A lawyer is charged with murdering a judge. Rob suspects R.J. of slandering him to ruin his practice.

It's just like old times as Barr, Robinovitch and Tchobanian prepare to set up shop again now that R.J. Williams is out of the picture.

Leon finds a case right up his alley representing a military man who refused to obey orders for reason of conscience, and Leon himself refuses R.J.'s orders not to take the case. Just as R.J. is revealing his feelings for Olivia, Carrie has an attack of conscience, and decides she wants out of the merger.

Phil Paley is arrested for polygamy, and hires Chuck and Leon to contest the law in a full- scale constitutional battle. Alana decides she wants a sports car and Olivia gets wealthy but very annoying client.

A cosmetic surgeon Leon meets at a casual golf game wants Leon to represent him in a divorce case, which he accepts at R.J.'s insistence. Chuck finally gets his revenge on Malony, and Olivia uses confidential information to win her case.

Olivia's inner turmoil affects a screenwriter's battle with a star. Leon gets confidential information. Chuck defends a patriotic protestor who was shooting at the cars at the border.

Chuck defends Tran Quiy, a young man accused of a brutal, gang- related execution.

Olivia's mother, long-thought dead, suddenly appears on the scene to contest her late husband's will. Carrie and Kim go to Bermuda for a vacation.

Olivia's father dies, leaving a sizeable estate to Olivia. Carrie defends Veronica on assault charge.

Carrie passes a case to Chuck, but he is ill-prepared, and his carelessness earns a first-time offender a stiff sentence. Dillon and Carry put off their wedding plans after a difficult case. Olivia represents aging trumpet player.

Tensions continue to rise between Dillon and Veronica when Dillon is assigned to prosecute a respected black community leader.

Carrie and Alana struggle to keep their personal feelings in check at the trial of a sexual offender who preys on elderly women.

Leon battles a large chemical company that manufactures a substance he claims is killing his client, and Leon's impressive handling of the suit lands the firm a merger offer from high-powered international lawyer R.J. Williams.

Chuck is cleared of all charges and released from prison, but the controversy surrounding him has scared away all of his clients. The student is angered to learn the double-murder screenplay cannot be produced. Dillon tells Veronica that he's got marriage on his mind.

Chuck's case is officially closed, but Carrie, Leon, and Olivia discover that Brent Elliot,the administrator of Stanley Wall's estate, is hiding something. Leon refuses to give Alana a divorce because he's not ready to give up yet. Olivia runs into danger when her client claims that his screenplay about a double murder is fact and not fiction.

Chuck becomes more and more obsessed with Olivia and her attention to producer Peter Garland, and hires Nick del Gado to track their activities.

Carrie's excitement at reaching the final stages of Kim's adoption is short- lives when Kim's natural grandparents show up to contest Carrie's application for custody.

Wanda, the firm's recceptionist, finds herself in a dilemma when her father arranges that she marry Sujeet, a distant cousin from India.

A priest friend of Leon's is arrested for concealing a terrorist, but Leon, fearing for his new political career, is reluctant to become invovled.

Leon surprises everyone when he announces he intends to run for mayor, a decision Alana is less than enthusiastic about.

Carrie enters a new dimension in criminal defense as she takes on the case of a young woman who contends she led police to the body of her murdered husband via a psychic vision.

During a press conference called to announce his candidacy for mayor politician Kevin Coatsworth is served papers for sexual harassment.

Chuck discoves his son Adam is desoeratly ill and ex-wife Lisa flies him back to Toronto for treatment.

In an attempt to impress a Hollywood producer she's representing, Olivia pits two unions against each other. Leon has to report a good friend to the law society, and Alana accepts the judge's seat.

Carrie has been falling in love with Dillon, but when she learns that he's prosecuting her client and friend, Wendy, for first degree murder, this puts a serious strain on their relationship. Leon makes a case against a dirty immigration lawyer.

Olivia's brothers show up in her life again, wanting to buy out Olivia's share of the family cottage, and end up getting themselves arrested for dealing animal parts. While Leon helps Nick's mother deal with a rental dispute, Alana decides to go after an open judge's seat.

Olivia and Chuck work together to make Olivia managing partner to give them financial control of the firm, but Carrie ends up getting the position. Carrie's friend Wendy looks for help in hiding her daughter from her abusive ex-husband. Leon's client lodges a suit against a cosmetic company.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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'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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

When Leon runs into an old flame from his days as a radical student, the two picks things up where they left off, and Leon is surprised to learn who the father of her daughter is. Carrie and Chuck fight to keep the firm in existance.

After Ted Barr quits the firm, Chuck, Leon, and Carrie have to try to hold the law practice together as Carrie and Ted head towards divorce.