Against the Law

- Season 1

(1990)

In the pilot, lawyer Simon MacHeath helps a woman seeking to divorce a mobster; and a teen who confessed to killing a psychiatrist.

A poker debt forces MacHeath to defend a snitch whose perjury once cost him a case.

MacHeath's opposition in a hospital negligence suit is a man working for his former father-in-law (Fritz Weaver), who consents to a wager when Mac's case appears lost.

Yvette tries to make a rape case against a hooker's john; MacHeath fights for---and with---a store owner charged with shoplifting and assault.

MacHeath feels he's working against his mentor when he defends one of two brothers charged with robbery and murder.

MacHeath and Phoebe (Barbara Williams) recall happier times when Mac sprang an ex-con, who's now on death row for the accidental killing of a cop.

MacHeath goes to bat for a comedian busted for obscene language---and goes to jail when he can't get the man to control his mouth in the courtroom.

Mac helps a 16-year-old prodigy gain emancipation from his family, then learns they have mob ties.

MacHeath is hired by an old flame, now an environmental activist, to defend her after she is accused of a bombing.

Mac holds Christmas Eve court in the mayor's home, where a homeless man's hostages are used as the jury in the man's fight against city hall.

MacHeath is one of several lawyers involved in a civil injury suit against a corporation, but stands alone after being charged with rape.

A basketball coach fights to keep his illiterate star eligible, until he hurts his knee---and loses his scholarship; and diet-powder users want to sue after gaining weight.

Mac loses his cool when Meigs is hospitalized by union thugs warning him not to challenge their corrupt leader.

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Mac learns that revealing pictures aren't the only secret in the past of a beauty queen, whose mother objects to his suit against the tabloid that prints them.

During an illegal search and seizure, a man confesses to killing his daughter's rapist.