After young lawyer Mitchell McDeere exposed the law firm he worked for was a front for the Chicago mob, he and his family found themselves in the Federal Witness Protection Program. Now, a decade later, McDeere, his wife Abby and daughter Claire, begin their efforts to reclaim their lives, which proves to be an uphill battle.

Mitch must defend the son of a partner in his new firm against a murder charge; as Mitch begins working on the Sarah Holt case, he starts to understand why Kinross & Clark brought him on.

Mitch is given the difficult task of defending Judd Grafton, a gambler wrongly accused of murder. With Judd continuing to claim his innocence and willing to take the risk of a guilty verdict, Mitch puts Ray to work to find any helpful clues.

Mitch's defense of a new client, Nate Murphy, is complicated when the young man's brother is named as a co-defendant. Running out of time, Mitch must convince Nate to go against his own brother and become a witness for the prosecution. Meanwhile, Tammy turns up the heat on a potential ally, Martin Moxon, to help explain his cryptic clue in the slow evolving Sarah Holt case.

After being cleared as a suspect in the death of Martin Moxon, Mitch is released from jail and immediately finds himself thrown into a new case against a large pharmaceutical company. During a free moment, Mitch visits Sarah Holt in jail, but she refuses to answer any of his questions. Elsewhere, Ray uncovers a clue about Mitch's pursuer on the day of Moxon's death, and Tammy and Abby investigate a mysterious list Moxon left behind.

Mitch represents a death-row inmate who wants to help the family he wronged in an unusual way; Tammy inherits a house from a deceased aunt, which causes tension with Ray; developments in the Sarah Holt case unfold.

Sarah Holt finally tells Mitch the truth about her case; Mitch makes an mistake that could land a client in jail for life; Tammy asks a hacker to search for clues on Sarah's computer.

Mitch makes a deal with Kevin Stack to keep Abby safe; the FBI arrests Mitch and Ray; Abby tries to manipulate her captors in a bid to escape.