Hotshot attorney Kevin Hill's life changes overnight when he is given custody of his recently deceased cousin's 10-moth-old baby Sarah. As he struggles to adapt his lifestyle in order to care for Sarah, including hiring full-time nanny George, his law firm starts to cut back his workload because they feel he is unfocused. But Kevin, insulted by their actions, quits and lands a job at an all female boutique law firm that coincidentally is more understanding of his situation than he expected. Later, after settling into his new responsibilities, Kevin finds himself on the other side of the bench against his former law firm and his best friend, attorney Dame Ruiz when he must defend a woman who has accused a popular baseball player of sexual assault.

Believing she has been branded a bad mom simply because she is famous, Kevin agrees to defend rock star Carly Austin who's on the verge of losing her daughter, but when he stumbles across a very inebriated Carly at a late night soiree, Kevin discovers she not only deceived him but jeopardized her daughter's welfare, and battles whether to defend his client or do what is ethically responsible. Meanwhile, Dame feels like his best friend's bachelor lifestyle is being neglected, so he conducts an ""intervention"" and takes Kevin to a party, and when baby Sarah begins speaking her first words, Kevin worries whether she will call him ""daddy.""

Kevin and Nicolette pair up to defend Andrew LaFleur , the charismatic owner of a high end dating service being sued by a shy, introverted client who is distraught over ""empty promises,"" but the two attorneys show little solidarity when it comes to their personal views on the matchmaker's practice and vehemently disagree on the best strategy to defend him. Meanwhile, Kevin uses every trick in the book to get Sarah into a highly competitive and extraordinarily exclusive preschool; in the meantime, Dame finds himself intrigued with Veronica when the two go to a basketball game together.

In order to get temporary custody over baby Sarah, Kevin must convince court-appointed social worker Eleanor Frank that he's fit to be a guardian, but after realizing that he's not well prepared, Kevin scrambles to tie up loose ends, including finding Sarah a doctor, forcing him to call in a favor from a female pediatrician he once dated and dumped unceremoniously.Meanwhile, Kevin and Nicolette represent a 22-year-old woman who is being sued by her mother because of bad investment decisions on her $7 million trust fund, which she made by ""consulting"" with her father…who is deceased.

Kevin and Veronica tag team to defend a hotshot hockey player who was fired after attacking an unruly fan, but when their feisty client decides to throw in the towel in the middle of a winning case, Kevin is determined to find out why and uncovers the secret behind his client's sudden change of heart.