First Years: Season 1 (2001)

Riley gets personally involved when a white couple wants to adopt her black client's baby; Sam orders the staff to dig up dirt on his ex's latest lover, in hopes of escaping her alimony demands.

Warren finds his inner lawyer---and faces his lonely past---after he and Miles help a cancer patient sue the shady pharmaceutical firm that made him sick. Meanwhile, Riley and Anna are stuck defending a pair of pretentious dot-com kids who stole their partner's Web-site thunder.

A bombshell regarding Warren's mom keeps him from coming clean with his folks about his sexuality; Anna debates using dirty info to ruin an opponent's case to evict an 80-year-old client from her family home.