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** In the third season finale, Lucy learns [[spoiler: Kelly kept her from knowing Maggie was reaching out to her and, combined with all her controlling behavior, angrily kicks Kelly out of her home. When Lucy returns later, she's stunned to find Kelly calmly sitting in the living room reading, treating their fight as a minor tiff and she'll spend a night in the guest room to "give you time to calm down and we can talk in the morning." She walks out as Lucy stares in disbelief that she's been hooking up with a sociopath.]]
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** When Chip Crombie is appointed to the bench, Abby tells him he's another mediocre white man getting ahead due to cronyism instead of merit. [[HypocriteHasAPoint It's true]], but Abby herself is a rich white woman whose career only recovered from her drunken escapades because her father owns a law firm.
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* LaboriousLaziness: At first Abby is in deep denial about having a drinking problem, so she goes to AA meetings and just does paperwork the whole time, schedules therapy appointments and cancels them at the last minute, and otherwise puts far more effort into creating the appearance that she's doing the work to get better than she would have to if she actually tried to get better.
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** Lucy's new girlfriend Kelly in season 3 does this to Lucy by isolating her from her friends and family by suggesting they're intruding on Lucy's life.
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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: The appropriately named season 3 finale "The Chickens Come Home to Roost" features this in spades. [[spoiler:Abby comes to terms about just how much her drinking affected her daughter and just how much her family's implosion was her fault. Harry realizes his past bad behavior was the reason why Joanne broke up with him and cannot trust him. Daniel inadvertently reveals he and Martina had an affair at Martina and Quinn's wedding, completely nuking any chance they all could remain friends. The only person who doesn't deserve what happens to them is Lucy, who is stuck with a clingy domestic abuser.]]
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** Lucy cheats on Maggie multiple times in season 1, but decides to stop after she decides she does want to raise children with Maggie. However, in the finale, [[spoiler: her mistress exposes her affairs to Maggie. Lucy is then kicked out of her home, and later has to fight for parental rights to the baby]].
** The appropriately named season 3 finale "The Chickens Come Home to Roost"features this in spades. [[spoiler:Abby comes to terms about just how much her drinking affected her daughter and just how much her family's implosion was her fault. has most of the character's bad deeds catching up with them. [[spoiler: Harry realizes his past bad affairs and behavior was the reason why Joanne broke up with him and cannot trust him. Daniel inadvertently reveals he and Martina had an affair at Martina and Quinn's wedding, completely nuking any chance they all could remain friends. The only person who doesn't deserve what happens Abby has been halfheartedly doing her moral inventory all season, but by the end comes to them is Lucy, who is stuck with a clingy domestic abuser.terms about just how much her drinking affected her daughter and just how much her family's implosion was her fault.]]
** Lucy cheats on Maggie multiple times in season 1, but decides to stop after she decides she does want to raise children with Maggie. However, in the finale, [[spoiler: her mistress exposes her affairs to Maggie. Lucy is then kicked out of her home, and later has to fight for parental rights to the baby]].
** The appropriately named season 3 finale "The Chickens Come Home to Roost"
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* AccidentalPublicConfession: Harry goes through a lot to settle with a flame after accidentally giving her chlamydia. Abby agrees to help him keep it quiet so as not to make Harry look foolish. But thanks to bumbling intern Cecil hitting the wrong button on a speakerphone, the ''entire firm'' hears Harry complaining about it to that woman.
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** Harry goes through a lot to settle with a flame after accidentally giving her chlamydia. Abby agrees to help him keep it quiet so as not to make Harry look foolish. But thanks to bumbling intern Cecil hitting the wrong button on a speakerphone, the ''entire firm'' hears Harry complaining about it to thatwoman. woman.
** Daniel gets caught spilling the beans [[spoiler: about his affair with Martina ''at Martina and Quinn's wedding'' on a [[IsThisThingStillOn hot mic]].]]
** Harry goes through a lot to settle with a flame after accidentally giving her chlamydia. Abby agrees to help him keep it quiet so as not to make Harry look foolish. But thanks to bumbling intern Cecil hitting the wrong button on a speakerphone, the ''entire firm'' hears Harry complaining about it to that
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* DownerEnding: Season 3 is an unambiguous case, as [[spoiler:Abigail reads Sofia's essay and learns just how much her drinking affected her, Harry realizes how badly he treated Joanne when they were together, Danny manages to obliterate any hope of a friendship with Martin and Quinn, and Lucy discovers that Kelly has refused to leave her house. And in the final scene, Abby goes to Ben for comfort, only to find that he's relapsed.]]
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* DeathSeeker: In "Catch 22", Abby takes on the case of a highly-intelligent women who has early-onset Alzheimer's and wishes to receive a medically-assisted suicide before she loses her faculties.
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** Chip Crombie may have gotten a lot of support in the "old boys network" of the legal community to the point of becoming a judge. But when it gets out he faked divorce papers from his first wife to trick his mistress into marrying him, he's kicked off the bench, his firm goes under and both women are ready to take him through an ugly divorce battle.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In-universe as a constant theme is the firm getting cases that mirror the exact same issues the family is having for each other. A prime example is "When There's a Will" as Daniel and Harry handle a father and son in a lawsuit over the family business and the fact the father refuses to back out of the business he built when his son is making it more successful clearly weighs on both men.
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* TheUnfavorite: Interestingly, all three of Harry's kids think they're this to him and act in jealousy over what they see as him favoring one over the other. It does seem he's more supportive of Lucy than he was with Abby and Daniel yet she can feel ignored at times and that he sees the other two as better. That he basically treats them all the same (which is to say that none live up to his expectations for them) doesn't occur to them.
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** Interestingly, all three of Harry's kids think they're this to him and act in jealousy over what they see as him favoring one over the other. It does seem he's more supportive of Lucy than he was with Abby and Daniel yet she can feel ignored at times and that he sees the other two as better. That he basically treats them all the same (which is to say that none live up to his expectations for them) doesn't occur to them.
** This comes up a few times in cases. A good example is "When There's A Will" as a pair of siblings are stunned to learn the son is getting $7 million while the daughter, who's the elder child, is given only $800,000. The two each argue on how their father favored the other with the son claiming his sister was given more freedom than he was. However, Abby wins the case when she reveals that the father was blatantly sexist to the point that he wrote a will giving everything to his son...when the boy was ''two days old.''
** Interestingly, all three of Harry's kids think they're this to him and act in jealousy over what they see as him favoring one over the other. It does seem he's more supportive of Lucy than he was with Abby and Daniel yet she can feel ignored at times and that he sees the other two as better. That he basically treats them all the same (which is to say that none live up to his expectations for them) doesn't occur to them.
** This comes up a few times in cases. A good example is "When There's A Will" as a pair of siblings are stunned to learn the son is getting $7 million while the daughter, who's the elder child, is given only $800,000. The two each argue on how their father favored the other with the son claiming his sister was given more freedom than he was. However, Abby wins the case when she reveals that the father was blatantly sexist to the point that he wrote a will giving everything to his son...when the boy was ''two days old.''
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** When Joanne calls a woman divorcing a rich lawyer a golddigger, Abby points out they're in the huge mansion Joanne paid for from her ''three'' divorces.
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* SecretOtherFamily: When Abby inadvertently causes Judge Chip Crombie to have a heart attack in a confrontation, she comes to his hospital to "apologize." Enter a woman gushing on her husband being so ill...just as Crombie's ''other'' wife comes in, causing the man to have another heart attack. It turns out Crombie forged divorce papers from his first wife to convince the mistress to marry him, rendering that marriage void. The second wife is more devastated as she truly loved Crombie and stunned he used her like this.
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* SecretOtherFamily: When Abby inadvertently causes Judge Chip Crombie to have a heart attack in a confrontation, she comes to his hospital to "apologize." Enter a woman gushing on her husband being so ill...just as Crombie's ''other'' wife comes in, causing the man to have another heart attack.
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* HitThemInThePocketbook: "Between a Rock and a Hard Place", Daniel Svensson, an altruistic lawyer who usually does pro bono cases helping working-class couples navigate their divorces as amicably as possible, gets stuck with Sabrina Bass, a WhiteDwarfStarlet who is open about her intention to extract a fortune from her philanthropist ex-husband to punish him for divorcing her.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In Season 3, the gang talk on an actor staying in the closet for his career. Jeri notes that "you never see gay actors playing straight leading men" just as Harry, played by the out Creator/VictorGarber enters.
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* ArmoredClosetGay: In "Play It Straight", Daniel and Abigail represent Zander Davenport, an extremely closeted gay actor who's been starring in cheesy Christian romance films in a desperate attempt to convince people he's straight. They're representing him because his younger ex-husband has been talking about him in a one-man play and people have been putting two and two together.
* ArmoredClosetGay: In "Play It Straight", Daniel and Abigail represent Zander Davenport, an extremely closeted gay actor who's been starring in cheesy Christian romance films in a desperate attempt to convince people he's straight. They're representing him because his younger ex-husband has been talking about him in a one-man play and people have been putting two and two together.
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* HopeSpot: In the season 2 finale, with Abby's help, Lucy wins the right to be named co-parent to Maggie's daughter and regular visitation rights. In the final scenes, Lucy goes to Maggie's for the first visit [[spoiler: only to find an empty apartment to realize Maggie has moved away and taken their daughter with her.]]
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** In the third season, Harry's affair with Crystal comes back to bite him when the bar association discovers they were having an affair when Crystal was his client and suspend Harry's law license.
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* ConMan: The firm runs into a few of these, of both genders. Notably is "A River in Egypt" as Gina's dad falls for the seemingly perfect woman only to be taken. As if it can't get worse, he's introduced to her dozen previous husbands, all of whom fell for her scam.
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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Abby has to slowly walk Nina's dad through how he met his girlfriend Michelle online, fell for her on how they both had windfalls, got married and let her have both access to his bank account and signed her to his house deed for the poor guy to realize he's been taken by a con artist.
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* MiddleChildSyndrome: Abigail, the oldest Svensson child, was a highly experienced lawyer before losing her old job, and Lucy, the youngest, is an accomplished therapist. Daniel, the middle child, is a junior partner at his dad's law firm who not only has to live up to his dad's reputation, but also has to escape from his half-sister's looming shadow.
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* RevengePornBlackmail: In episode "Under the Influence", the firm represents a woman who's trying to escape from a cult, but who is being blackmailed by the cult leader, who taped her having sex with him.
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* ChurchOfHappyology: In "Under the Influence", Daniel and Abigail take on a client, Sabine, who is involved with a fitness cult, LIFT, which almost manages to ensnare Abigail, too, as she is desperate for approval after a bruising marriage-counseling session. Thankfully, Lucy is on hand to bail her out by deconstructing the cult's tactics, but Sabine nearly loses custody of her kids when it turns out that there were tapes of her having sex with the cult leader.
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''Family Law'' is a Canadian legal drama starring Creator/JewelStaite and Creator/VictorGarber. It airs on Creator/GlobalTelevisionNetwork in Canada and Creator/TheCW in the US.
After her life falls apart, brilliant but arrogant lawyer Abigail Bianchi finds herself forced to work for her estranged father's law firm, along with her two half-siblings.
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''Family Law'' is a Canadian legal drama {{dramedy}} starring Creator/JewelStaite and Creator/VictorGarber. It airs on Creator/GlobalTelevisionNetwork in Canada and Creator/TheCW in the US.
After her personal life falls apart, brilliant but arrogant lawyer Abigail Bianchi finds herself forced to work for her estranged father's law firm, along with her twohalf-siblings.
half-siblings. The series also stars Creator/ZachSmadu, Creator/GenelleWilliams, and Creator/LaurenHolly.
After her personal life falls apart, brilliant but arrogant lawyer Abigail Bianchi finds herself forced to work for her estranged father's law firm, along with her two
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* CommitmentIssues: Both Daniel and Lucy have issues committing to a serious romantic relationship and starting a family. Daniel does this by breaking it off with his fiance and Lucy cheats on her wife. Despite Abby being the most messed up of Harry's children, she is ''very'' committed to her husband and kids and making things work - possibly because she doesn't want to repeat Harry's mistakes ''and'' because unlike the other two Svensson kids, she was never completely raised by him and didn't imprint on his own commitment issues.
