Drop Dead Diva

Having agreed to resign after her breach of confidentiality exposed a client's multimillion-dollar insurance fraud, Jane Bingum must now steel herself for a lunch with Ethan, the man claiming to be her husband. While picking up her final paycheck, Jane is reminded of her pro bono case for 8-year-old Jackie Williams and her mom, Wanda, whose insurance company is refusing to pay for a heart operation it deems experimental. Though she encourages them to find a lawyer who isn't facing disbarment, one look at Jackie is all Jane needs to take the case. And while Jane has decided not to contest her disbarment, when boyfriend Tony Nicastro agrees to represent her, she changes her mind. So when Tony unexpectedly shows up during her lunch with Ethan, Jane struggles to keep each man's identity a secret from the other. As the hearing gets underway, Tony's efforts to prevent Jane's disbarment are threatened when her rival at the firm, Kim Kaswell, is called to testify. However, after Jane fails to undercut Kim's credibility, Grayson Kent implores their boss, Jay Parker, not to abandon her for deciding to expose a client's crimes. Meanwhile, as she struggles to explain the situation after finding out that Tony has learned about her marriage to Ethan, Jane discovers that her guardian angel, Fred, has returned. As Fred looks for a job, Jane learns that she married Ethan so he could get health insurance to treat his leukemia. Having run off to Argentina and fallen in love with someone else, Ethan now wants a divorce so he can remarry. Yet, while Jane is sure she can make things right with Tony, after pointing out that she is guilty of insurance fraud herself, he says he can no longer represent her. Finally, after Jane forces insurance company president Gus Melvoy to admit that the decision not to cover Jackie's surgery was made to save money, a change of heart about her disbarment prompts Parker to convince the judge to reinstate Jane's license. And though Jane again risks her

As Jane represents a man who wants to reclaim his son after going missing and presumed dead for nine years, Kim discovers that a new client has been writing a popular advice column under a male pseudonym.

With Jane and Tony on opposite sides of a fraud case filed by a bigamist's two wives, Kim wrestles with the idea of motherhood while fighting to reclaim a friend's baby from its surrogate mother.

As Tony's new job challenges their romantic relationship, Jane looks to keep Teri's cousin from being deported; Kim and Grayson represent a mother charged with assaulting her young daughter's abusive basketball coach.

When Jane's mother is unexpectedly arrested, Jane must represent her in court before Judge Summers (Rosie O'Donnell) and reconnect with the father she has never known in order to help her mom. Meanwhile, things between Parker and Kim heat up, and Grayson gets heavily invested in a case involving a Ponzi scheme. Teri attempts to help Fred with driving and dating.

Jane helps Grayson defend one of the singers of a famous pop duo and they decide to team up with the lawyer defending the duo's other accused star...

When Deb's mom, Bobbi Dawkins, asks Jane to represent a friend who's been charged with stealing a valuable nail polish formula from her employer, Jane quickly senses something isn't quite right. And after Samantha Colby turns down a chance to replace her court-appointed lawyer, Bobbi admits that Sam isn't a family friend, but a daughter she gave up for adoption years ago. So when Jane reiterates her offer, Sam grudgingly accepts after realizing Bobbi is her mom. Meanwhile, tricked into taking a custody case, Kim is stunned to discover that the "child" being fought over by Mike Barry and Faye Nuland is actually a chimpanzee named Sonny. Still reeling over the news that she has a half-sister, Jane sets out to craft Sam's defense. Though she remains cool toward her birth mom, Sam softens after Bobbi reveals that she had a daughter who recently died in a car accident. However, just as Jane appears to be winning the jury's sympathy, the prosecutor produces a security video showing Sam leaving Freemont Labs with the stolen hard drive. Meanwhile, after agreeing to help Kim, Grayson recalls some facts about chimps that convince the judge to proceed with a custody hearing. And as he works on finding links between human and chimp behaviors, Grayson also looks to bridge the gap between him and his new girlfriend, lawyer Vanessa Hemmings. Conceding her guilt, Sam claims that theft was the only way to get back the formula she created after it was stolen from her by her employer, Anne Simpson. But when she looks to prove her story to Ryan Trilling, the engineer and owner of the company planning to manufacture the nail polish, Sam is rebuffed. So, to get Trilling's attention, she gets Bobbi to use the polish on her nails and then show him the results. After calling Anne as a witness, Jane both explains how Sam was inspired by Trilling and effectively undercuts the claim that she is a thief. Finally, though the judge rules in her favor, seeing a despondent Sonny makes Faye re

As Jane agrees to be the lawyer for an infamously difficult fashion designer, Kim and Grayson argue on behalf of a client whose sex change has jeopardized her chances at being considered her late spouse's legal heir.

Though pleased she's bringing in new business, Jane is stunned when Parker makes Kim the lead attorney on her age discrimination lawsuit against Clasky Pharmaceuticals. However, after being made second chair on the case, Jane relishes seeing Kim struggle with the fact that the client, Charlotte Perkins, is only 34 years old. Meanwhile, as Fred hires Stacy to serve some divorce papers, Jane persuades Grayson to represent a couple who want their mortgage contract voided because their new house is haunted. Despite having been a top earner at Clasky, Charlotte claims that when becoming a parent led her to stop attending the company's parties and wild junkets, she was reassigned to a low-paying desk job. But when Jane, already troubled by the revelation that Kim and Parker are romantically involved, asks the senior partner to explain, she fails to get any satisfaction as she learns that the case against Clasky has been dismissed. Meanwhile, as Jane looks to restart the lawsuit, Grayson's skepticism about his new clients' case disappears when he sees Deb's ghost in the house. And after seeing how much Molly loves married life, Stacy can't bring herself to serve her with the divorce papers. But when Fred decides to do it himself, he finds he can't crush Molly's dreams either. While she convinces the judge to consider Clasky's hard-partying atmosphere and emphasis on youth as the makings of a hostile work environment, Jane can't offer any concrete proof. So, as she accuses Kim of trying to sleep her way to the top, Jane persuades the judge to allow an "average" woman to testify about Clasky's work policies. After embarrassing himself in court by claiming he saw a ghost in the Prescotts' house, Grayson gets another chance to make a case against the bank when Vanessa suggests that mold inside the walls might have caused hallucinations. Finally, as Grayson's expert witness's testimony persuades the bank to settle, Jane's novel strategy prompts Clasky to reinstate Charlot

Jane defends a fugitive cop against theft charges meant to derail his investigation into corruption on the force.

While continuing their office romance, Parker enlists Kim to defend A.J. Fowler, an old friend and reality show producer who is being sued by Wendy Simon, a contestant who claims she was humiliated after being jilted by a prospective suitor on his hit TV show The One. Though Parker argues that a waiver Wendy signed protects Fowler, the judge agrees to a trial. And while Kim isn't comfortable with how Wendy has been treated, Parker still insists that she be the one to cross-examine her. Meanwhile, Jane and Grayson join forces to represent Evan Robbins, a sales rep whose grief over his wife's death leads him to wear a clown costume to work – a case that Parker doesn't want to take. And as an encounter with one of Parker's ex-girlfriends leaves Kim wondering about the future of their relationship, Jane cautions Fred against resuming his pursuit of Stacy. Suspecting he's behind the slew of complaints about Evan's clown attire, Jane calls Russell Westenson to testify. Yet, even after proving that Westenson's irrational fear of clowns led him to orchestrate a campaign against her client, a courtroom outburst that lands Evan in jail also jeopardizes Jane and Grayson's case. Meanwhile, unsettled after her scathing questioning of Wendy, Kim continues to wonder if she and Parker have any future. And after concluding that Stacy may actually like him, Fred freezes up when he tries to ask her out. After Jane bails Evan out of jail, the intimate details of how Grayson dealt with his own grief following Deb's death give her an idea. And once she hears Evan blaming himself for her untimely and tragic death, Jane encourages him to start acting like the man his late wife would have wanted him to be. Finally, after exposing the suitor who jilted Wendy on TV as an aspiring actor looking to boost his career, Parker realizes that A.J. actually put him up to it after falling in love with Wendy himself. So, after encouraging Wendy and A.J. to "settle" the lawsuit on their own, Parker

Jane's defense of a high school girl being bullied on the Internet makes her a target, too; Parker's long-absent law partner and former girlfriend returns seeking help in voiding a prenuptial agreement.

As Jane decides not to mention Parker and Claire's kiss, she and Grayson see Professor Kathy Miller about a routine estate planning matter, only to learn she's dying of Huntington's disease and wants to be cryogenically preserved to have a chance at being cured in the future. And while the idea of pre-mortem freezing is untested, Jane convinces a judge to hear the case. Unaware of Claire's romantic efforts, Kim agrees when Parker teams them to represent a client who wants to stop construction of a corporate campus adjacent to his beachfront home. And as Vanessa gives Jane the things Grayson left at her house before breaking up, Fred prepares Stacy for a commercial. But when during the filming he's unable to watch Stacy kissing another actor, Fred jumps in to stop it, only to see his efforts nearly backfire. Though they got a hearing, it will be a lot harder for Jane and Grayson to get a judge to allow Kathy's suicide. Realizing that her own heart stopped prior to her being "reanimated" by Deb's ghost gives Jane the ammunition she needs to win. Yet, as they are celebrating, she realizes that Kathy isn't actually dying – rather that she's looking to be frozen and then revived when her cryogenically preserved late husband is brought back to life, too. Meanwhile, though Claire produces an environmental study that says the corporate development project will endanger a rare butterfly, Kim discovers the data was falsified to win the case, whatever the cost. So when Kim seeks her advice, Jane tells her about seeing Parker kissing Claire. And after the opposing counsel successfully challenges the fraudulent report, Claire blames it on Kim – and then fires her. When the judge refuses to rescind his ruling, Jane is left to stop Kathy's suicide on her own. And after watching Jane persuade Kathy to stop hanging on to a relationship with her late husband, Grayson sees how his feelings for Deb have kept him from moving on, too. Finally, upon learning about the firing, Parke