Legal Drama

Fairly Legal – The Complete First Season

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fairly-legal-complete-first-seasonIt’s odd that Universal waited this long to release the First Season of Fairly Legal on DVD just as the Second Season is winding down. The three-disc set includes all ten episodes of the first season including an extended version of the Pilot episode.

Sarah Shahi stars as Kate Reed, a former lawyer turned mediator, who will spend the entire season in a battle of wills with her stepmother (Virginia Williams), and in a constant dance with her ex-husband (Michael Trucco), while working at her recently deceased father’s law firm.

Over the course of the first season Kate will help a man (Paul Schulze) wrongly imprisoned for more than half of his life, solve disputes for a grumpy judge (Gerald McRaney), help an illegal immigrant (Christina Vidal) who served honorably in the U.S. Military stay in the country, save her friend’s (Brittany Ishibashi) wedding when her father’s (Clyde Kusatsu) insistence on an iron-clad prenup which threatens to ruin it, and solve a dispute between an adoptive father (Scott Holroyd) and grandmother (Kathleen Gati) involving a young girl (Olivia Steele-Falconer) after her mother’s death.

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Fairly Legal – Shattered

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Kate (Sarah Shahi) finds herself involved in a mediation concerning the possible negilgence of a nurse. The lawyer (Katie Walder) suing the nurse just happens to be an ex-girlfriend of Ben’s (Ryan Johnson). The nurse in question is a Haitian who will be deported if she looses her job and the only witness who could clear her is an eco-terrorist (Betsy Brandt) who has been on the run for 20 years and has no intention of blowing her cover now.

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Fairly Legal – Gimme Shelter

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Forced into doing mediation for 20 bankruptcy clients of Aero Bank a thoroughly depressed Kate (Sarah Shahi) is moved by an apartment owner (Esai Morales) whose building has been in the family for three generations. With a little leeway from the bank, Kate can help the man save his building, but that means solving the problem of his drug dealing client who is keeping other renters away.

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Fairly Legal – Shine a Light

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“I never agree with your methods, but sometimes they get spectacular results.”

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Kate’s (Sarah Shahi) latest mediation concerns a manager (Kevin Weisman) not happy with his aeronautics company’s generous proposed settlement offer after firing him when the engineer discovered a flaw in the new design engine design which would cost the company millions to fix.

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Fairly Legal – Bait & Switch

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In need of a mediator, Judge Nicastro (Gerald McRaney) enlists Kate’s (Sarah Shahi) help in a dispute coencerning a fishing boat captain (Timothy Murphy) who is refusing to pay for an injured deckhand (Aaron Hill) who lost his hand in a boating accident. The case is complicated by the young man’s previous drug use and the the fact that the sailor is the captain’s estranged son.

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