Present: Mary Elizabeth Sims, a Birmingham wife, mother, and aspiring writer, reaches out to her estranged childhood...

Present: Rene represents a woman whose rapist is suing her for shared custody and visitation rights to the child con...

Present: Rene falls for the reporter assigned to do a story on her for the ""Birmingham Daily"" while turning down b...

Present: Approaching their 26th wedding anniversary, M.E. and Colliar are at odds and they each seek out Rene for an...

Rene helps plan a ceremony honoring her father. She asks M.E. to write a biography of her father to present at the ev...

Present: When an old family friend who is now a city councilman asks Rene to defend him against corruption charges, ...

Present: After M.E. finds an empty beer bottle in the living room the morning after Kelly's party, she grounds her d...

Mary Elizabeth solicits the help of her family and Rene in caring for her aging Grandma Otis. Meanwhile, Rene is aske...

Rene is representing the parents of a child who has died of AIDS. M.E. tries bringing her friends and Rene's friends ...

Present: Rene represents a white couple prevented from adopting their black foster daughter; M.E. has an ectopic pre...

Rene represents a lesbian couple who are forbidden to marry on public property. M.E. suspects that Colliar is having ...

When Rene defends a black family that has been kicked off their property, she must confront the Alabama law that stat...

Present: Rene gets fixed up with a man who turns out to be a stalker; Teresa visits Mary Elizabeth and Colliar, and ...

Rene's stalker is still around and she has to get a restraining order. M.E. and Colliar are beginning their own const...

Rene is reunited with her cousin who has spent the past 20 years passing for a white man. M.E. and Colliar bid on a c...

Rene represents a white man who was beaten by the police. When Kelly brings home her black boyfriend, M.E. and Collia...

After Rene agrees to hire a youth whom her boyfriend Bill mentors, she discovers that Bill is not divorced - only sep...

Tully, a childhood friend of Rene and M.E.'s, offends Rene when he takes part in a bigoted, tasteless prank during a ...

Rene sends some of M.E.'s stories to a publisher friend in New York. When the publisher visits M.E. on a trip to a So...

Mary Elizabeth and Colliar deal with Davis's suspension from school for ""sexual misconduct,"" and try to raise a son...

Mary Elizabeth and Rene go to Los Angeles to visit Mary Elizabeth's sister Teresa, whom they must help come to terms ...

Mary Elizabeth helps Rene prepare to meet Bill's kids. Each year Mary Elizabeth debates whether or not to plan a birt...