Episodes 01

“The Rules of Professional Conduct”

Mickey is shown being beaten by two men in a parking garage. Prior to this, following Trevor Elliott’s acquittal, Mickey has become famous and his business is more successful. However, his relationship with Maggie is still tense due to her career being at a standstill because of his defense of Jésus Menendez. He finds out from Izzy, who is still his driver, that she is teaching dance classes with her ex, Rae, who she is now back together with, and tells her to be careful. He takes the case of Russell Lawson, a bankruptcy consultant, and manages to get the charges dropped, though Lawson still retains him as his lawyer. At a dinner with Maggie, she leaves due to being unable to handle the ways their careers have progressed, after which he meets the chef, Lisa Trammell, and hooks up with her. The next day, he finds that she is the last original resident on the block holding out against a developer trying to gentrify the block, Mitchell Bondurant. Lisa later shows up at his office and shows him a restraining order from Bondurant, and he promises to help. Lorna struggles with law school and work, which forces Izzy to help her, and eventually finds that the professor who tried to hit on her has become the dean of her law school, and she requires his approval to have Mickey mentor her. Cisco, while still working for Mickey, has resumed working for the Road Saints, which he keeps from Lorna. Mickey finds that Detective Griggs is reinvestigating the murder Jésus Menendez was accused of, and he asks Mickey to bring his client for an interview. When Mickey does, Griggs reveals that Menendez did own a knife like the one used to kill the victim, and though he doubts him, Mickey continues representing him. Later, he is surprised by Lawson at his house, who shows Mickey his tattoo, revealing he committed the murder Menendez is accused of, and points out that as Mickey is his attorney, he cannot turn him in without being disbarred.

Episodes 02

“Obligations”

Following Lawson’s confession, Mickey asks Legal Siegel what to do, and his mentor tells him to stop representing Menendez, as well as how to fix it. On the way to the office, Lorna informs him that Gloria has been arrested for cocaine possession and Lawson is at the office. When he arrives, Lawson asks him to get him out of a traffic ticket, and continues to taunt him. After he leaves, Mickey tells Lorna and Cisco not to investigate Menendez and leaves to see Gloria. When he meets Gloria, he finds she was arrested after being paid in cocaine by a well-off man, and has her give him the name and address of her client to get out of the charges, also telling her she will need to talk to the cops about Menendez by herself. Cisco’s involvement with the Road Saints causes Lorna to think he is getting cold feet, though he later reassures her, while Lorna gets the approval from her former professor, also telling him off for how he treated her. However, Cisco is later shown to be investigating Kaz, a Road Saint who their leader believes is an informant. Izzy tells Mickey she and Rae want to open their own dance studio, and Cisco informs him Gloria’s client is a high ranking drug dealer in the Tijuana cartel. Mickey meets Maggie, and offers to give her the case to bolster her career if she gets the charges against Gloria dropped. Afterward, he meets Lisa, who tells him Bondurant is increasing pressure on her. The next day, after Maggie informs him the deal is accepted, he leaves a file for Lawson on his desk and leaves the office, also telling Griggs he is no longer representing Menendez. Griggs meets Gloria, obtaining a description and sketch of the attacker. Afterward, Mickey meets Griggs, and hints to him that Gloria may be in danger. Gloria is released and returns home, where she is attacked by Lawson but saved by the police, including Griggs, who realizes Mickey is involved. After Lawson is charged with the murder Menendez was accused of, Mickey meets Gloria, who tells him she will go to Hawaii for a while. He then visits Lawson in jail, threatening him if anything happens to his family, and afterward informs Menendez the case against him has been dropped. On his way home, he gets a call from Lisa, who says she has been arrested for killing Bondurant.

Episodes 03

“Conflicts”

Mickey visits Lisa in jail, and gets the video of her interrogation. She maintains her innocence, but he claims he doesn’t care, and tells her not to mention the case to anyone. Mickey slowly starts to reconcile with Maggie following his helping her career, while Lorna disapproves of him taking Lisa’s case, also becoming suspicious of Cisco after he lies about a charge on their credit card. Mickey watches the interrogation video and becomes concerned when Lisa openly expresses hatred for Bondurant, and admits to having seen him before he was killed. At the arraignment hearing, he is taunted by Andrea Freemann, the prosecutor. Lisa makes bail, but is unable to afford it, so Mickey has her sign a contract to her life rights to pay for it. Lorna confides in Izzy about her doubts about Cisco, eventually finding that he is associating with the Road Saints again. The next day, while discussing the case, Lisa arrives at the office having been bailed by Henry Dahl, a podcast producer who intends to create a true crime story from her case, but Mickey confronts him and tells him he cannot do this per the contract. When Lorna confronts Cisco on his lies, he admits that he and Kaz are close friends, and Kaz protected him from being arrested for a drug run, after which he left the club, but due to Kaz’ early parole, has to prove he is or isn’t a mole to pay off his debt, after which he will leave the club for good. Lorna accepts, and admits why she dropped out of law school initially, causing Cisco to threaten Dean Wheaton. Later, after hearing from Hayley that she heard Maggie and Freemann discuss the case, he has Lorna write up several new motions, using them to force Freemann to hand over the discovery file immediately or be removed from the case. Back at the office, Mickey meets Rae, and warns her not to hurt Izzy. After this, he is accosted by Maggie for using Hayley for his career, though she leaves after realizing he and Lisa slept together, telling him to stay away from her and Hayley. At his house, Lisa meets him, but he tells her they need to stay professional until the case is over. She accepts, but pressures him to tell her if he believes she is innocent, which he does. As Lisa leaves, Henry is shown in his car watching them.

Episodes 04

“Discovery”

Freemann sends a large amount of evidence to Mickey’s office, forcing them to search through everything. When going over possible defenses, Lorna and Izzy consider that Lisa may be guilty, and make a case, including the fact that the murder weapon could have been a hammer which is missing from a tool kit confiscated from Lisa. When he asks Lisa where the hammer is, she claims she doesn’t know. She also tells him she and her ex-husband broke up due to his lack of ambition, and invites him to a community dinner that night. Meanwhile, he is also contacted by former client Terrell Coleman, who asks him to help his teenage daughter, charged with vandalism. He does, by making her vandalism come across as promotional artwork. Freemann offers him a plea deal, causing him to realize there may be a way to win the case, while Cisco finds evidence that Lisa’s restraining order was filed after she assaulted Bondurant. At the dinner, in which he encounters Henry trying to start a podcast anyway, Mickey tells Lisa about the deal, only for her to reject it despite his concern. After witnessing Kaz meeting with someone and telling Lorna, Cisco confronts him, finding that he was forced to become an informant after killing a man in prison, and is about to leave town. He reveals he has set the Road Saints up to get caught in a deal and offers to get his friend into witness protection, though Cisco rejects this, while Lorna confides in Izzy about her concern for Cisco. Continuing to investigate Bondurant, the team finds he lost 200 million dollars on an apartment building, and Mickey later discovers he threatened someone connected to the Armenian mob, Alex Grant. When he attempts to reject the plea deal, Freemann tells him it has already been withdrawn. Realizing this means the prosecution has a strategy to defeat theirs, Mickey informs the others.

Episodes 05

“Suspicious Minds”

Mickey continues to have feelings for Lisa, and tells her the prosecution has something new. He asks her to contact her ex-husband to see if he can help them. She attempts to refuse, but eventually agrees. Cisco promises Lorna he will be done with the Road Saints by the next day. When Mickey arrives, he decides they will force Freemann to reveal her strategy by disproving Lisa’s opportunity to commit the crime at the preliminary hearing. Afterward, he finds that Henry has started a podcast about the murder. He informs Lisa, who apologizes and tells him she gave his number to her ex-husband. He also files an injunction against Henry to stop it, which upsets Lisa. On the way home, Izzy informs him Rae is short on money. At the preliminary hearing, Mickey, with Lorna’s help, casts doubt on the testimony of the witness who saw Lisa, only for Lisa to privately admit she was in front of the building on the morning of the murder. However, Freemann later introduces forensic evidence which seemingly proves Lisa guilty. She afterward reprimands him for seemingly thinking she is guilty, claiming she is being set up. He is also contacted by Lisa’s ex-husband, who refuses to testify for either side. Meanwhile, Cisco finds an address for Alex Grant, though he is missing, and protects the Road Saints from being caught in the deal, afterward telling them he is done and they will never hear from Kaz again, which they seemingly agree to. He and Lorna later give Kaz a fake driver’s license and passport, and Lorna tells him to never return to Los Angeles or contact Cisco again. At the office, Mickey discovers that Henry is still doing the podcast. When he is unable to find the contract for her life rights, he calls Lorna, who tells him it is still in his car. After an argument with her about Lisa’s presence affecting them, he goes to get the contract from his car. In the garage, after finding the contract missing, he is attacked and beaten unconscious by two men.

Episodes 06

“Withdrawal”

Episodes 07

“Cui Bono”

Episodes 08

“Covenants and Stipulations”

Episodes 09

“The Fifth Witness”

Episodes 10

“Bury Your Past”