Toronto lawyer Olivia Novak (Cynthia Dale) is set to triumph in yet another high-stakes litigation versus Standout Pharma. Standout's lawyer Guilia Lessandri (Leni Parker) offers $30,000,000. Novak's new law partners Lilly Rue (Cara Ricketts), Mina Lee (Yvonne Chapman) and Adam Darling (Steve Lund) aren't satisfied for moral reasons. Novak isn't satisfied because she knows she can get considerably more seeing a manoeuvre by Lessandri as a sign of weakness.
Novak's weed-smoking, sexually adventurous daughter Emily Tchobanian (Julia Tomasone) shows up having dropped out of medical school in Vancouver under mysterious circumstances. She strikes up a bond with Darling (Yes, Dear?) which makes things very complicated when her mum finds out, eh! At some point Darling will get around to doing some actual lawyering. Olivia has acquiesced to his being second-chair for their case versus Standout. But that could change after the thing with Emily.
Lee takes on Len Dakota, a nightmare of client. The volatile paraplegic is bothered by the brats and their parents who attend a daycare adjacent to his home. Lee runs into a past/future love interest Taylor (Laurence LeBoeuf) - a Crown attorney, during the case and they work a highly immoral hack which should get them called before the Law Society of Upper Canada (Like a lot of stuff RDL and Olivia are doing).
Olivia's mysterious private investigator Derrick Leiber (Patrick Labbe) continues his affair with Rue. But he finds time to follow Lessandri and Standout's CEO DuMoulin. What he finds out shows Novak and RDL a twist they didn't see coming. They aren't happy. But they aren't devastated.
This is what Street Legal was in it's original incarnation but it is ratcheted up a notch. Novak has somehow found (Not by chance!) a group of young lawyers who function at her elevated level of adrenaline. They take chances and burn the candle at both ends like she did and still does.
We see the failures of Novak's personal life that her new partners could enjoy when they're her age. But disbarment is only presented in the spectre of Leiber - a former lawyer turned investigator. Emily suggests that the high-mindedness of Novak's new partners will rub off on her mum. The reverse is more likely.
This episode also serves to open the door for a guest appearance by C.David Johnson who portrayed Chuck Tchobanian for the full run of the original Street Legal (1987-1994). Chuck and Olivia weren't married that long. But it was long enough to conceive Emily. Chuck, as the episode eludes to, went to Australia.
Novak's weed-smoking, sexually adventurous daughter Emily Tchobanian (Julia Tomasone) shows up having dropped out of medical school in Vancouver under mysterious circumstances. She strikes up a bond with Darling (Yes, Dear?) which makes things very complicated when her mum finds out, eh! At some point Darling will get around to doing some actual lawyering. Olivia has acquiesced to his being second-chair for their case versus Standout. But that could change after the thing with Emily.
Lee takes on Len Dakota, a nightmare of client. The volatile paraplegic is bothered by the brats and their parents who attend a daycare adjacent to his home. Lee runs into a past/future love interest Taylor (Laurence LeBoeuf) - a Crown attorney, during the case and they work a highly immoral hack which should get them called before the Law Society of Upper Canada (Like a lot of stuff RDL and Olivia are doing).
Olivia's mysterious private investigator Derrick Leiber (Patrick Labbe) continues his affair with Rue. But he finds time to follow Lessandri and Standout's CEO DuMoulin. What he finds out shows Novak and RDL a twist they didn't see coming. They aren't happy. But they aren't devastated.
This is what Street Legal was in it's original incarnation but it is ratcheted up a notch. Novak has somehow found (Not by chance!) a group of young lawyers who function at her elevated level of adrenaline. They take chances and burn the candle at both ends like she did and still does.
We see the failures of Novak's personal life that her new partners could enjoy when they're her age. But disbarment is only presented in the spectre of Leiber - a former lawyer turned investigator. Emily suggests that the high-mindedness of Novak's new partners will rub off on her mum. The reverse is more likely.
This episode also serves to open the door for a guest appearance by C.David Johnson who portrayed Chuck Tchobanian for the full run of the original Street Legal (1987-1994). Chuck and Olivia weren't married that long. But it was long enough to conceive Emily. Chuck, as the episode eludes to, went to Australia.