The Guardian: Season 3

Nick fights to keep a small boy whose mother performs in a traveling carnival in DCF custody when he claims he was molested by the carnival owner.

Pressured to bring his own new business to the firm, Nick and Sadie Harper, Fallin & Fallin's new defense attorney associate, must get a town of 23 people to sign release settlements in order for Nick to land a huge coal manufacturer as a client.

Alvin is having to take James Mooney's caseload & trying to stop Lulu from leaving for new job. Nick meets Sharon Diamond who was arrested for solicitation. Nick asks for help in what to recommend for Sharon (A.K.A.: Tiffany Skovich) who was working at a restaurant. Nick tells Tiffany Skovich to talk to the police about Mason and go to a shelter. Alvin tries to get Mason to stop using girls for money. Alvin goes to far looking for Tiffany before police get to the scene, leaving Nick to wonder

Lulu starts her job as Director of LSP, leaving Alvin to wonder if he is needed at LSP. Nick helps a couple sue a fertility clinic because the baby is black. The parents want to keep the baby and the clinic to pay for damages. Nick needs to help find Samantha Gray who lost her sight because her dad. Samantha goes to Nick's office to tell him she isn't going back to the place she came from. Nick has dinner with Mrs. Aaronson who became pregnant after doing a procedure to have a baby, now the la

When the bank insists that the firm pay off its loan immediately, Nick is forced to try to collect unpaid fees from delinquent clients. Meanwhile, Lulu's estranged father returns and asks her for money.

When Lulu's father decides to stay at her place, she and Nick agree they still have feelings for each other and agree to move in together. Jake learns a secret his father has hidden for years when his father announces he and Jake's mother will divorce. Lulu's father tries to impede her relationship with Nick while asking her to invest in his new painting business.

As part of his community service, Nick is reassigned to help clean up an inner city park, where he meets a former LSP client he does not remember. He helps the boy by calling a community college despite the boy stealing his wallet. Burton's new client is a mother putting her son up for adoption because she can't afford to care for him, while he also moves to adopt Shannon despite her natural father trying to obstruct it.

LSP teams up with Victoria Little to form AIDS Relief Alliance, meanwhile Nick becomes a medical guardian to two kids who may AIDS. Lulu learns she is about to be a mom. Nick and Susan Powell meet Mr. Wheat who learns that one his kids needs a home because she is HIV positive. Nick asks Burton for his for mom's engagement ring to marry Lulu after she sees the ring Lulu wonders if Nick is moving things to fast. Nick leans his client is HIV positive after he wouldn't give a blood test. Nick lea

Nick tries to find a place for Donny Longo & his Grandfather to live together, but Donny has a hard time with Rebecca's ruling (the Judge that handled the shelter hearing). Meanwhile Burton must try to get Mr. Lounge's house back from a man that bought it at an auction. Mr. Longo lived in the house for 65 years with paying rent. Nick learns that Mr. Longo used the property for bad purposes that caused Mr. Longo to lose custody of Donny.

Nick learns that his dad will need surgery to fix his heart, also Nick must keep the firm from losing a merger, help Burton find a good doctor to do the surgery. Nick wonders if Burton will make it through the surgery and tells his dad Lulu is pregnant. Shannon asks to go to the hospital because worries Burton might die and have no place to live.

Nick must find a kid a home after his father, who was recently let go from Kane Industries, went crazy and shot his boss and several other coworkers in a conference room during a meeting. Meanwhile, Burton wants Nick as the firm's managing partner. Burton also fears Eric Kane isn't ready to return to work without dealing with the shooting's trauma.

Lulu dumps Nick over his affair with Suzanne, and he takes a drug called Beautiful Blue Mystic---unaware it injured the firm and LSP. He goes to rehab for help and learns his would-be counselor Anne needs help placing her son after she learns she's dying. Lulu also confronts Suzanne.

Nick learns it's hard to regain the trust of those he's hurt, including Lulu and Suzanne, while Alvin thinks he's rushing through his recovery steps. Burton thinks Nick isn't ready for a heavy caseload. Lulu tries placing Connor Adams---whose father was killed in a bus accident the man's racist remarks to the driver may have provoked---in foster care. She also now understands Nick's affair with Suzanne.

Nick learns his unborn baby has Down Syndrome to learn more about it Nick helps Mark set up a trust fund so he won't lose his Social Security. Nick tells Lulu about Mark and that he took the case to understand more about Down Syndrome and help Lulu understand what maybe a head for their baby. Kate Shaw asks Jake to take an AIDS test because Kate wanted him to join a country club.

Jake lies about his injury but Burton and Maureen learn the truth. Nick has to decide whether a boy named Luke should live in foster care or with his father after seeing his mother deeply affectionate with his best friend. Lulu wants a trust fund for her unborn child that Nick agrees to help set up. Jake refuses to testify against his attacker---but delivers an ultimatum to his former partner.

Nick tries to find an unwanted foster child, Philip, a home when his adoption is halted over the couple's newborn's injury. Shannon posed for photographer Malcolm Reeves, angering Burton who learns Roy signed the papers allowing it. Philip's adoptive mother turns out to suffer post-partum depression. Shannon runs away with Malcolm.

Nick sees a change in his dad that worries him, Burton keeps getting dizzy due to Vertigo. Burton wonders if he will be a good dad to Shannon. After Nick & Burton learn Shannon has been found they try to get the woman who called police about Shannon to tell Nick and Burton where Shannon might be. When Burton offers to pay the woman to tell where Shannon is Nick isn't sure the woman will tell the story.

Alvin tells Nick he's been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) and asks Nick to go to Los Angeles with him for a bachelor party-like weekend. Both men are unaware at first that Lulu overheard Alvin reveal the diagnosis. The trip causes Nick to miss a key meeting at Fallin & Fallin, but gives him an insight into Alvin's courage. Alvin hopes to see the son he hasn't seen since the boy was age seven. After rejecting the visit, the boy's mother agre

Alvin tells Nick his ALS may affect his relationship with Victoria later; later, Alvin reveals Victoria changed her mind about the marriage. Meanwhile, during an investigation into a series of killings in which the victims were accused child molesters, Alvin balks at turning LSP client files over to a court. Nick defends a sexually abused teenage boy who wants to protect his father from being implicated in the crime, even though it appears that his father was the abuser.

Burton thinks only too well of Sandra, a somewhat new lawyer at the firm whom he's seeing socially, which may cloud Nick's future though Burton thinks she's not ready to be a partner. Sandra files a sexual discrimination suit against the firm after her partnership bid is rejected in a close vote. Jake decides to move the partners against Nick. Nick and Jake battle wills when they try to get an elderly and sick client declared incompetent when his wife and partner disagree with the terms of a cor

Nick 's future at the firm is about to be voted on, as Nick awaits the verdict on his future he takes on two cases that involve two boys. The first boy Nick defends is Kevin Brown who is accused of raping a girl who became pregnant with a baby. The second boy Nick defends is a young boy who attacked an 8 year-old girl and attacked a social worker who was trying to place him in a foster family. The boy was placed in a center that was supposed to help rehabilitate the boy into society. Alvin def

Nick's probation ends as he's fired from Fallin & Fallin and hired on at corporate law firm Walter & McNeil. Lulu delivers her baby girl prematurely. With Nick's help after telling Nick of Talik's troubled life, Alvin tries to stop Talik's execution over new evidence of brain damage. Lulu and Nick discuss naming the baby and agree she should have full custody after Nick learns she wants to work at LSP part time to care for the baby. Alvin resigns from LSP over his illness. Burton leaves Fallin &