Franklin & Bash

In addition to being longtime friends, Peter Bash and Jared Franklin are partners in their own highly unorthodox law firm. That is, until legal legend Stanton Infeld asks them to come in and shake up his corporate law practice, after seeing these two streetwise attorneys successfully beat his best lawyer, and nephew Damien Karp, with their outrageous courtroom tactics. And even though they insist on bringing along their germophobe lawyer Pindar Singh and sassy paralegal Carmen Phillips, Infeld doesn't hesitate. On their first day, Peter and Jared are asked to observe the firm's defense of Tommy Donegan, a Trans-Sky Airlines pilot whose heroic landing of his jet in a cornfield is in danger of being overshadowed by the accusation that the emergency happened while he was having sex with a flight attendant. And while keeping Donegan under wraps at their bachelor pad home, Peter and Jared are also representing Annie Benton, a prostitute who claims that she and her client, Evan Porter, were lovers. During a party thrown to keep Donegan off the media's radar, the compulsively clean Pindar is locked inside his room at the house when he stumbles upon an open video feed to the Infeld office, showing Karp and Trans-Sky executive Neal Bryant conspiring to undercut the pilot's case in order to protect the airline. Even as Peter and Jared realize that Karp is willing to hang them out to dry, Pindar balks at appearing in court to testify to the double cross. And despite being threatened with having his scheme exposed, Karp confidently produces the plane's co-pilot in court to discredit Donegan. Meanwhile, as the sexual tension between Jared and senior partner Hanna Linden heats up, Peter is left to adjust to the breakup of his longtime relationship with prosecutor and law school classmate Janie Ross. With Peter in court defending Annie, Jared heads to a Trans-Sky shareholders meeting to stop the airline from destroying Donegan's reputation. And when Pindar overcomes his

Peter represents Jared's old frenemy in a legal dilemma. With things never what they seem to be, the guys begin to see their client a different way. Jared is also asked to run lead on a divorce case when it becomes clear Karp and Hanna's history prevents them from working together. Harry Hamlin guest-stars.

Isabella Kaplowitz is accused of using sex to kill her elderly and chronically ill billionaire husband, Harry, and turns to Infeld/Daniels for representation. Stanton Infeld agrees to let Franklin and Bash join Damien Karp on Isabella's legal team. Yet, even as Infeld's stirring opening statement seems to get the trial off to a promising start, Jared learns that an offshore online gambling website has set the odds at 50-1 against Isabella. When a paramedic testifies that Harry implicated his wife just before he died, Isabella's case appears to be in jeopardy. Worse still, when Peter looks to get the dead man's lawyer and best friend, Wallace Clayton, to attest to Isabella's innocence, Judge Leslie Hong refuses to allow it. However, as the odds against Isabella get even longer, Franklin and Bash's investigator, Carmen uncovers the judge's substantial gambling debts, leading Jared and Peter to suspect the Judge is trying to influence the case in order to win a large bet. Meanwhile, when questioned on the stand by Infeld, Isabella claims that she and Harry enjoyed sex daily and swears she never would have killed him. But when the prosecutor produces a witness who claims she heard them fighting just before Harry died, Isabella's credibility is undermined. After eliminating their suspicions about Judge Hong wagering on the outcome of the case, Jared and Peter zero in on Annabelle Meyer, a juror whose sudden change in honeymoon plans suggests that she is the one telegraphing information about the trial to bookmakers on the outside. But Infeld recommends not exposing the juror, saying that a retrial might prove even worse for their client. They must continue to win an acquittal. So, by convincing the juror to get herself dismissed, and by managing to get Wallace Clayton to relay a story to the jury suggesting that the victim's alleged deathbed accusation was actually the punchline of a joke they had shared, the jury finds Isabella not guilty of murder.

While fretting over the impending loss of their computer expert, Gene Toy, and Karp's request that Pindar erase an embarrassing video from the law firm's server, Peter and Jared agree to represent Jennifer Putnam in her lawsuit against "Stirred" magazine. Though their client is as yet sight unseen, Jared is certain they can win the case in which Jennifer says she was fired for being too attractive. However, he and Peter have been tricked into betting with Karp on the outcome of the case, and they soon discover that their new client is actually quite plain. But rather than admitting defeat, Jared redoubles his efforts to win Jennifer's case against publisher Katherine Mack, the daughter of the magazine's legendary playboy founder, Big Mack. Meanwhile, when Gene Toy claims that he has been wrongfully accused of theft and this has made him persona non grata in Chinatown, Peter tries unsuccessfully to get the store's owner, Mr. Han, to back down. Upon realizing that Jennifer has no intention of dropping the lawsuit and that she sees herself as being very beautiful, Peter refuses Katherine's settlement offer. And while Hanna recommends dropping the case, Jennifer manages to pull the lawyers back in. So, as the guys set out to argue for Jennifer's unparalleled beauty, Hanna joins them in the courtroom. Meanwhile, with Gene Toy ready to give up and leave Los Angeles in order to avoid further humiliation, Infeld agrees to argue his case before the all-powerful Chinatown Council. Though a courtroom stunt nearly gets Peter charged with contempt, he continues to refuse Katherine Mack's offers to settle. While the guys are attending a "Stirred" charity fundraiser they notice Big Mack devoting a lot attention to Jennifer. They then realize that firing Jennifer was solely Katherine's idea. After pressing Katherine about her relationship with her father, it's clear that Katherine fired Jennifer because Jennifer was the daughter Big Mack had always wanted. Finally, as Big Mac

A family is torn as one side sues the other over a priceless 1988 home-run baseball in a case that pits Jared against his own father (guest star Beau Bridges). Meanwhile, Peter works with Hanna on defending a reality television father (guest star Tom Arnold) who is affectionately known as the "Douchey Dad." And Karp comes to Pindar for help on a top-secret project involving a compromising video.

Following their arrest for a jewelry theft at the home of Kelly McDowell, a wealthy socialite, pole-dancing teachers Amber North and Simone Winters hire Franklin and Bash. Facing off against Peter's ex, Janie Ross, Franklin and Bash try to discredit the claim that their clients drugged Kelly and her friends so they could steal the jewelry. After Peter and Jared fail to have the evidence, obtained in a search of Amber's apartment, thrown out, Amber and Simone turn against each other. So when they decide to separate their clients, Jared takes Simone, Peter takes Amber, and Franklin vs. Bash is on. Meanwhile, Hanna and Karp represent Alex Carlisle, a thirteen-year-old boy who is suing his father so he can take a kayak down the Amazon River alone. After they agree not to discuss the case, Peter and Jared are cornered when opposing lawyer Janie Ross offers a deal to the first pole-dancing teacher, who agrees to testify against the other. Once she sees how badly it has divided them, Janie opts to seek convictions against both. When Jared produces evidence that Amber had a prescription for the painkiller that was used on the victims, Peter sees his own case with Simone crumbling. Meanwhile, despite 13-year-old Alex's formidable display of maturity in the courtroom, his dad's lawyer reveals that the boy walked out on summer camp because he was homesick. As Alex's legal team continues preparing their defense, it is clear that the boy is smitten with Hanna. With help from Pindar and Carmen, Peter and Jared see that the case is dividing their partnership and agree to work as a team. Evidence that socialite Kelly is in deep financial trouble and facing foreclosure leads them to suspect that she engineered the theft in order to collect on her insurance policy. Though the judge refuses to let Kelly's safe deposit box be opened in court to see if it contains a "stolen" necklace, Jared's fancy legal maneuvering gets a copy of Kelly's own pain medication prescription entered i

The guys are placed under house arrest for a crazy courtroom stunt, but are pleasantly surprised when Lily Garrett, stunning niece of Stanton Infeld, misses her flight home to London and shows up at their “man cave.” Unfortunately, Jared accidentally sets off his court- ordered monitoring bracelet, and a subsequent police search of the house uncovers marijuana in Lily's purse. With the guys' detention making it impossible for them to attend her arraignment, it falls to Karp to represent Lily. Meanwhile, Dante Cole, Carmen's ex-con boyfriend and sexual soulmate, has snuck into the house to see her but flees when police arrive to keep them both from being arrested for parole violations. As everyone works to keep Lily's arrest a secret from her uncle, her passport is confiscated and she is released to stay with Peter and Jared until her trial. So when Infeld drops in for a video game tutorial at the “man cave,” Peter keeps Lily out of sight. Meanwhile, Carmen finds a backpack Dante left behind containing $100,000 in stolen cash and the police arrive to arrest her for violating her parole. Infeld learns that Lily missed her flight and blames Karp as Dante arrives at the house looking for his money, which the guys' fill-in assistant Marla inadvertently took out with the recycling. Realizing that Carmen's only hope is to have Dante turn himself in, Peter and Jared take him to retrieve the missing money, hoping their monitoring bracelets will alert the police to their whereabouts. But Dante bolts just as the cops arrive, and Peter and Jared are nailed again for violating their house arrest. To make matters worse, Lily faces a serious felony charge when a thorough search of her bag uncovers additional drugs in the form of marijuana-laced lozenges. With no one to represent Carmen in court, Pindar sets aside his phobias to act as her lawyer, laying out a defense that rests on her addiction to sex with Dante. Lily agrees when prosecutor Janie Ross offers her probation if she immediately leaves the country, and her uncle, Stanton Infeld, shows up to make sure she gets to the airport and on the plane this time. Luckily, as Pindar is struggling to make a convincing argument for Carmen, Dante shows up to surrender himself and the stolen money in exchange for her release.

Peter and Jared are approached by Carter Lang, a widely reviled financier whose diagnosis of a terminal illness has inspired him to repay the shareholders he bankrupted while enriching himself. Though they both harbor doubts about the ethics of working for someone as despised as Lang, the guys take the case in order to pay back many of those who lost their money. Their task becomes more difficult, however, when a former associate of Lang's, John Stills, has the financier arrested for stealing his yacht. Meanwhile, when eccentric multi-millionaire businesswoman, Abha Jaya, looks for a new legal team, Karp and Hanna use Pindar to try to land the lucrative account. Although Lang readily puts up one million dollars in bail to gain his release, when he is arrested again for indecent exposure, evidence of his role in another theft from Stills lands him back in jail. And when Lang discovers that the diagnosis of his illness was a mistake, Jared and Peter suddenly see his altruism has vanished as he demands that they do whatever it takes to beat the charges or he will implicate them in the theft if they can't. Meanwhile, though Pindar and Abha Jaya share many of the same phobias, Pindar's failure to get everything cleaned up for a meeting at the Franklin & Bash house sends Abha running before he can even begin his pitch for the account. With Infeld's blessing, Jared and Peter decide to risk their own imprisonment by presenting a shaky case that will send Lang to jail and keep him from defrauding any more investors. Ordered by the judge to present a competent defense, they fulfill their obligations by tricking Lang into accepting a deal that secures justice for the investors he cheated out of their life savings. Finally, even though Pindar has been thrown off Hanna and Karp's legal team, by using a series of fortune cookies to present his legal strategy, he finally wins Abha's account.

Following his arrest for allegedly soliciting a prostitute during his bachelor party, Nathan Connor asks his fiancé Janie Ross' ex-boyfriend, Peter, for help. Making it clear that the party wasn't his idea, Nathan insists on keeping Janie from finding out about his arrest. However, because there was also a fire in his hotel room that same night, he is facing serious jail time and it's impossible to keep Janie in the dark. But with her encouragement, Nathan turns down a plea bargain in order to prove his innocence. Meanwhile, when teacher Emily Claire asks for help after she's terminated for allegedly having sex with a student, Jared prepares to face his old high school headmaster, Walter Gallen. When the prostitute refuses to dispute the police report, Franklin & Bash's investigator, Carmen, gets the hotel security chief to testify that Nathan probably wasn't in the room when things got out of hand. But then the bellhop testifies that he overheard Nathan having what sounded like sex near the hotel pool. Confronted by Janie, Nathan claims that the woman at the pool was his assistant, Lauren Gonzalez, who he called for a ride home. After high school senior Chris Briggs says that Emily came on to him, a bartender tells Jared and Peter that this wasn't the first time Chris seduced an older woman. But the bartender refuses to testify before the school board. Jared tries bluffing, only to have headmaster Gallen claim that Emily has been accused of having sex with a student once before. With Pindar's help, Jared learns the identity of the other student. After Jared implies that he can undermine the kid's chances at being accepted to college, the student confesses to having made up the story. At the school board meeting, Jared engages the bartender in a successful effort to get headmaster Gallen to reinstate Emily in order to avoid adverse publicity. And, after Nathan's assistant Lauren testifies that Nathan only sought her advice because he was getting cold feet, Janie's testimony about the abstinence pact they made six months before the wedding convinces the jury of Nathan's innocence. But a new case is on the horizon when the body of one of Stanton Infeld's old friends is found, fifteen years after he disappeared during an ill-fated mountain climbing expedition. Infeld asks his nephew, Damien Karp, to find him a criminal defense attorney.

While being manipulated by a scheming law partner (guest star Tricia Helfer), Franklin & Bash (Breckin Meter and Mark-Paul Gosselaar) must prove Infeld (Malcolm McDowell) is innocent of murdering his best friend during a mountain climbing expedition fifteen years ago. Hanna (Garcelle Beauvais) lends a hand when a younger challenger and a pair of greedy promoters threaten an aging professional wrestler's career.