Drop Dead Diva

- Season 4

(2012)

After Kim blackmailed Parker to promote her senior partner, he left her in charge while he chases his ex-girlfriend and the son he didn't know about. Finding the law firm financially near disaster, Kim bribes Jane with perks and a raise to return from Italian holiday with Owen and help by winning a murder case defense for a wealthy, adulterous law school friend Emily Horn, tried for murdering her boyfriend and blames her husband Anton. To get over disloyal Stacy, Fred found another girlfriend, Allie, but accepts Jane's advice to stick to his true love. Instead of ...

Jane and Grayson partner up on case involving a 16-year-old video game genius (Austin) determined to sue his father while Kim represents her own father (Ratzenberger) in an eviction case. The firm's new Angel investor Luke, finds a way to be more involved with Jane's personal life than she would like. Stacy and Nikki decide to go into business together, despite Jane's hesitation.

Jane takes on a wrongful termination case but soon becomes convinced there may be more to her client than meets the eye. Kim and Parker team up to represent Owen's sister in her divorce hearing while Grayson helps Stacy and Nikki with the legal matters to getting their business in order.

Jane and Kim take on a case suing the producer of a reality makeover show. Parker is shocked when his son Eric appears at the firm while he has his hands full serving as an arbitrator on a custody case involving a pet store rat. Teri agrees to help Stacy with the opening of her pakery in exchange for some stage time while Grayson and Owen get competitive in basketball and loves.

Jane creates havoc with the Bhutanese government when she decides to represent a young woman who wants to get out of an arranged marriage to the Prince of Bhutan. Meanwhile, Kim and Parker try to help Eric's teacher get his job back when his off campus X-rated past catches up with him. Teri signs on as Stacy's head of marketing and gets creative on twitter and the web to get customers into the pakery.

Jane and Grayson team up for a case involving a faulty oil rig and the death of one of its engineers while Jane battles the uncertainly of Owen's whereabouts and what it means for their upcoming nuptials. Meanwhile, Parker enlists Kim's help in a custody hearing for his son Eric when his ex Elisa (Norwood) hires a high-profile, hard-ass attorney Kelly Stevens (Williams) to fight for sole-custody of Eric.

Jane's mom Elaine (Prince) enlists Jane's help in defending a girl she use to babysit who is accused of murdering another teen. Tired of Luke's antics, Parker asks Grayson to help woo Gina Blunt (Amick) as a new potential investor in the firm despite Teri's protests about her. Teri and Stacy discover some news about Owen that leaves Jane devastated.

Teaming up with Grayson (Jackson Hurst) to supervise a law student's suit on behalf of a computer company employee puts Jane (Brooke Elliott) at odds with her former Stanford Law School mentor. Meanwhile, Kim (April Bowlby) begins to suspect that the firm's creditor Gina Blunt (Madchen Amick) is up to no good.

Jane (Brooke Elliott) and Grayson (Jackson Hurst) represent a woman who is suing for custody of her late fiancé's ashes. And just as Jane starts to accept his disappearance, Owen (Lex Medlin) suddenly returns.

Bobbi Dobkins enlists Jane's help when a dance school student sues her over an injury, while a high school classmate hires Grayson when the city of Lakewood refuses to pay her for a sculpture it considers obscene.

As Jane's (Brooke Elliott) lawsuit on behalf of a teenager who collapsed at a rave prompts a death threat against Owen (Lex Medlin), Kim (Kate Levering) and Grayson (Jackson Hurst) represent a sperm donor seeking to retain his parental rights.

After teaming up to sue a big drug company, Jane (Brooke Elliott) worries that her partner, a high-profile trial lawyer (guest star Dylan Walsh) is mentally unsound. And when someone claims the patent on the pake, Stacy (April Bowlby) has to find con artist Nikki LePree (guest star Kim Kardashian) to back her up in court.

As she works to persuade a friend to have a fatal brain tumor removed, Jane (Brooke Elliott) must confront her unresolved feelings for Grayson (Jackson Hurst). And after Stacy (April Bowlby) helps Kim (Kate Levering) defend a country singer who's accused of trying to murder her ex-boyfriend, Jane struggles with her mother's (guest star Faith Prince) help as she prepares for her wedding day.