8.0/1018 votes#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1999
After losing her husband and clients all in one day, Attorney Lynn Holt sets out to rebuild her life. With some help from Danni Lipton, an ambitious almost junior partner, Lynn decides to rebuild her law practice by subleasing her offices to two other lawyers, Rex Weller and Randi King. Lynn's first new client is a former drug addict trying to win back custody of her children.
Director: Paul Haggis
Writer: Paul Haggis, Anne Kenney
- 8.3/1095 votes
#2 - Damages
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1999
Lynn helps Rex represent a couple seeking damages against the doctor who neglected to tell them that their child would be born with Down Syndrome; Danni turns marriage counselor to a couple divorcing; Randi reveals a dark chapter in her past; Lynn sets out to show Michael how hard it is to juggle a career and parenting.
Director: Paul Haggis
Writer: Paul Haggis, David Shore
- 7.5/1014 votes
#3 - All God's Creatures
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1999
Lynn tries the case of a woman seeking custody of her children from their racist father; Danni hopes to rekindle the flames with her new client, who is also an old boyfriend; Rex represents a man injured by exploding beached whale blubber; Sweet memories abound when Lynn and Michael start dividing their property.
Director: Fred Gerber
Writer: Anne Kenney
- 7.8/1011 votes
#4 - Prisoners
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1999
Randi represents a correctional officer charged with raping an inmate. However the case hits too close to home since she knew the officer when she was in prison; Lynn starts to represent a famous young actor in a divorce case; Danni's relationship with Don becomes more complicated.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1012 votes
#5 - The List
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1999
Lynn helps an old friend deal with his troubled daughter, who's created a list of people she wants to kill; The woman Michael left Lynn for comes looking for a job; Danni and Don's relationship heats up; Danni learns that Randi is getting some ""attention"" from a surprising source.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1010 votes
#6 - The Nanny
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1999
Lynn represents a couple desperate to get custody of their granddaughter, even though it goes against their deceased daughter's wishes; Rex's mentally ill older brother breezes into his life after a two year absence; Danni represents an obnoxious actor suing a paper for ruining his career after they claimed he was dead; Randi and Andres's relationship heats up.
Director: Fred Gerber
Writer: Stephen Nathan
- 6.3/109 votes
#7 - Games
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1999
Danni and Rex take opposites sides of a case involving kids on a soccer team and their overzealous parents; Andres asks Randi's help in representing a friend who has money coming to him from a wealthy former client. But her testing of his skills makes Andres very uncomfortable; Lynn finds herself with a moral dilemma when she represents an Afghani couple trying to stay in the United States even though he is wanted for burglary in his homeland.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/109 votes
#8 - The Fourth Trimester
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1999
Over Lynn's objections, Danni represents an L.A. Laker being sued for child support; Rex represents a man who confesses to bombing the Federal Building 30 years ago; Randi goes all out to make a deadbeat client pay his bill.
Director: N/A
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
- 7.6/109 votes
#9 - Holt vs. Holt
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1999
Lynn and Michael square off in court in a battle between a cancer-stricken employee of a lingerie company and the owners that fired her shortly after her mastectomy; Rex represents the inept son of a professional thief.
Director: Fred Gerber
Writer: Anne Kenney
- NaN/100 votes
#10 - Four Drops of Blood
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1999
Rex defends a woman accused of murdering her one child and abusing the other; Randi represents the ""spokesman"" for Mr. Chips potato chips when he's fired for being too old; Lynn goes ""trolling"" for clients.
Director: Michael Schultz
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1011 votes
#11 - Decisions
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1999
Lynn acts as mediator in her friends' decision of how their dying son should spend his last days; Danni defends her father after he's arrested for a hit and run; Rex tries to make a commercial showcasing his skills, but it doesn't go as he planned.
Director: Adam Nimoy
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1018 votes
#12 - Media Relations
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/10/2000
Rex and Lynn defend a 10 year-old boy accused of murdering a little girl for her bike; Randi represents a man who claims his wife put a hex on him; an unexpected event puts an end to Danni & Don's relationship.
Director: Elodie Keene
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/109 votes
#13 - Human Error
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/17/2000
Viveca passes the bar and joins Rex's practice. Her first client is a college football star who allegedly parked in a handicapped space, resulting in the injury of a paraplegic; Rex and Lynn represent a former convict who wants to reclaim custody of his daughter.
Director: Fred Gerber
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
- 6.1/1021 votes
#14 - Stealing Home
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/24/2000
Lynn represents a woman trying to keep her molester husband away from their daughter; Danni represents a celebrity hairstylist who mocked a client in front of a roomful of people.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10153 votes
#15 - A Mother's Son
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/7/2000
Rex and Randi fight to show that the adopted parents of a mentally disturbed boy are not responsible for the boy's murderous act; Danni finds herself at odds with her father when she takes the case of a man fighting his ex-wife for $1 million in lottery winnings. The problem: the ex-wife is now dating Danni's father.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Anne Kenney, Judith Feldman
- 7.2/108 votes
#16 - Are You My Father?
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/21/2000
Lynn's case involving a woman suing a televangelist for child support takes a surprising turn; Danni represents a woman who wants custody of her daughter. The problem: the woman was formerly a man.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1016 votes
#17 - Metamorphosis
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/28/2000
Lynn takes desperate measures to help a woman regain custody of her son; Rex battles his ex-wife over support payments; Randi tries to communicate with her estranged daughter.
Director: Fred Gerber
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/109 votes
#18 - Necessity
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/6/2000
Rex defends an elderly woman on charges of drug dealing when she sells medication to the elderly at discount prices; Danni and Randi fight for the freedom of a Children's Services employee who kidnapped a child from his abusive parents; Lynn and Michael try to put aside their differences to take the kids camping.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1010 votes
#19 - Playing God
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/20/2000
Lynn defends a woman, who runs a foundation for children born to crack-addicted mothers, when the woman pays an addict $200 to be sterilized so she wouldn't have any more crack addicted babies; Danni represents a mother who wants to send her son to Bhutan because she believes he is reincarnation of the High Lama; Michael attempts a reconciliation.
Director: Fred Gerber
Writer: Tricia Brock
- 7.4/108 votes
#20 - The Witness
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/17/2000
Rex and Randi represent a pair of brothers: one a murder suspect, the other a witness; Danni tries to help a cleaning lady keep the $500,000 mistake in her bank account; Lynn realizes she's not living environmentally correct and tries to make some changes.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jeff King
- 6.9/1011 votes
#21 - Second Chance
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/24/2000
Lynn takes the case of a cop who broke a restraining order to be with his kids, something she later regrets, Danni pleads the case of a former childhood icon who refuses to give up his cherished puppet which he claims was given to him, Randi gets into a minor car accident and panics when she's accused of DUI.
Director: Fred Gerber
Writer: David Shore
- 7.6/109 votes
#22 - Love and Money
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/1/2000
First Danni and then Rex take on the case of a woman suing her husband for half of the $48 million estate that he wants to give to charity; Randi fights for the rights of a mentally challenged couple to keep custody of their daughter; Lynn has problems dealing with the tragedy of her previous case.
Director: David Shore, Elodie Keene
Writer: Stephen Nathan, David Shore
- 7.8/1010 votes
#23 - Possession is Nine Tenths of the Law
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/8/2000
Lynn represents a priest who is on trial for an attempted murder he claims was an attempted exorcism, Andres reveals a shocking secret when he's threatened with deportation.
Director: David Shore
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Family Law Season 1
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Network:CBS
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "Family Law" season 1. It scored 8/10 based on 18 votes. Directed by Paul Haggis and written by Paul Haggis, Anne Kenney, it aired on 9/20/1999. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Damages".