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A federal judge hires struggling Cleveland lawyer Casey Cort after child protective services removes her teenage daughter. As a custody battle threatens the judge's pending confirmation, Casey must navigate an unforgiving system and a client determined to control her.

Young women are discovered imprisoned in a shipping container behind a Cleveland hotel. As Casey Cort rebuilds her legal practice and federal prosecutor Miles Siegel investigates, their work exposes connections between respectable institutions and human trafficking.

Casey Cort is rebuilding her Cleveland legal career when the powerful Brody family draws her back into its orbit. A new case and her former boyfriend's renewed interest threaten the independence she has struggled to regain.

Weeks before graduating law school, Casey Cort exposes a secret that threatens her promising future. As powerful people turn against her, she must choose between protecting her career and confronting the institutions determined to silence her.

A police shooting leaves Cleveland divided by conflicting accounts of a single bullet. Attorney Casey Cort takes on the case as public anger grows, searching for justice in the brief encounter everyone believes they already understand.

Casey Cort's adoption case becomes a battle between a surgeon and an undocumented nanny who believes the child was stolen from her. Casey must untangle competing claims and concealed histories before the girl disappears again.

Casey Cort defends a woman accused of killing her husband, but her client refuses to explain their marriage. Across the courtroom, prosecutor Nicole Long fights to preserve her career as the case exposes the ambiguity of abuse.

Returning to criminal defense, Casey Cort faces her former fiance, prosecutor Tom Brody, across the courtroom. A major crime and buried family secrets force her to balance loyalty to her client against confidences she cannot reveal.

A cluster of childhood cancers points toward contaminated water in a Cleveland suburb. As attorney Justin McPhee builds a lucrative class action, Casey Cort faces returning enemies and difficult choices about justice, ambition, and personal survival.

A call from Germany disrupts Peter Cort's quiet Cleveland life and revives memories of a childhood stolen in Nazi-occupied Poland. Casey accompanies her father across the Atlantic, searching for his lost family and an unfamiliar past.

Newly appointed head of Major Crimes, Nicole Long must prosecute a fatal overdose while struggling with sobriety. When another death implicates her boss's family, political demands and a grieving sister complicate her pursuit of justice.

After college, Nicole Long accepts a job at her father's megachurch and suffers an assault by its charismatic pastor. Reporting him exposes the power protecting his reputation and shapes her determination to become a prosecutor.

Nicole Long prosecutes a priest accused of decades of abuse while struggling with sobriety and personal trauma. As witnesses begin dying, a journalist's podcast investigation uncovers secrets that test Nicole's faith in the justice system.

Nicole Long prepares to prosecute a woman for a Cleveland murder, but unreliable evidence raises doubts about an earlier conviction. Parallel investigations by a detective and podcaster expose troubling patterns inside the system Nicole serves.

Therapist Suzanne Wolf hears unsettling similarities in the accounts of two women involved with the same controlling man. As his behavior emerges through their separate stories, she must weigh patient confidentiality against the danger she recognizes.