Harry's Law - Second Season

Did the world just turn into a sea of jerks, or...?

Puck?

Hey, Harry, how are you?

Meet Paul and Marcie Vinson, and their daughter Sela.

Hello.

Uh, can we go

into your office for a second? It's important.

We really appreciate this.

I'm not quite sure what it is you're appreciating.

We'd like you to represent Sela.

She's being charged with...

An acquaintance of hers at school recently took her life,

and Sela's being held criminally liable for the girl's death.

I wasn't trying to bully her.

I have a blog that she read.

It's an unfortunate situation. I have been representing her.

The case and files are fully developed... full developed.

Another one of my cases also got called for trial.

So I was wondering if perhaps you would take over this one?

Please. Harry, I need you here.

More importantly, so does Sela.

Exactly what was on this blog?

I just said...

...she was gay.

Harry's Law 2x04 - Queen Of Snark Original air date October 12, 2011

I have a pretty low opinion of lawyers,

so it's not as if I have high expectations.

But you set a new low.

You are unconscionable.

I would go so far as to say despicable.

- What's your point? - My point?

My son came to you desperate for help and you prey on him

to get hold of his life insurance?!

That's one way of looking at it.

Here's another.

Your son, dying of leukemia, comes to me, Tommy Jefferson,

in search of a lawyer to help him get

some experimental treatment

that the pharmaceutical company refuses to provide.

I take his case for free

in exchange for an assignment of his policy.

I fight valiantly for him in court.

I do not prevail, but I am valiant just the same.

I lose the battle in court, but I tried.

And I charged him nothing.

You are here crying,

because you didn't get the proceeds to his policy.

Well, sir, tell me, as he was dying,

desperate as you say, what did you do?

I, Tommy Jefferson, fought for him, you heard me say valiantly.

That's what I did. What did you do?

- I'm sorry. - No, it's...

Are you okay, sir?

You work with that guy?

Are you kidding me?

You took a dying man's life insurance?

What good is it going to do him? He's dead.

Tommy, I don't even know what to say.

Say good-bye then. See ya.

You're going to get sued for this.

- You do realize that? - Yeah, right.

Good luck to daddy finding a lawyer to go after me.

He did find one.

- Me. - Very funny.

I'm serious. I took his case. I'm representing him.

- We share the same office. - But we're separate firms.

You either sign over this life insurance policy

to my client, or I'll get the court to order you to.

Is Harry in her office?

I think so.

Hey, Cassie, how you doing?

I'm flattered.

- You're very kind, but no thanks. - I just said how you doing.

Okay. Doing fine, Ollie.

Oh, you thought I was hitting on you, that's what you thought.

I wasn't hitting on you.

Okay, lunch... that's not hitting. Everybody eats.

It's hardly hitting.

Everybody eats lunch.

What do you mean you're leaving?

Harry, it's Christian Louboutin.

I don't care who it is, why are you leaving?

This is a huge opportunity for me.

Christian Louboutin is like the holy grail of women's footwear.

- They make shoes. - Well, they saw the Vogue-Online interview

and they called and asked to interview me, which I did.

- Successfully. - Jenna, we're just getting started here.

Even Sarah Palin stuck it out two years before she quit.

Don't make this difficult.

I will make it difficult.

I'll make it as difficult as all get-out.

- I need you here. - No you don't.

I hired a great girl downstairs,

she's going to take care of the shoe store.

- And the law office is practically... - Jenna.

Look, this is a calling for me.

And if you really care about me as much as you pretend to...

Well, I don't care that much. I was pretending.

I'll sue your ass if you leave me in the lurch like this.

You okay?

Why are you here, Ollie?

Uh, well...

Actually, I don't care, sit down.

I helped bail you out last time,

now you need to help me.

I just took on a new client, Sela Vinson.

That's funny.

You're serious? The cyber-bully?

I don't think she's really a bully.

The trial is set to go, I could use your help.

Listen, Harry,

defending wife-killing murderers is one thing.

But cyber-bullies who contribute to teen suicide...

this is a public relations disaster.

I'm not looking for P.R. advice.

I need a good second-chair,

and since you owe me...

Ah, Sela, come in.

Meet Ollie Richard, he's joining the case.

- Hi. - Hi.

Okay, look, uh... first order of business,

I'm going to meet with the D.A.,

see if I can get the charges reduced.

I don't figure to be successful, but it's worth the shot.

Sit, honey.

I wanted to talk to you alone, since... well,

in that courtroom, your parents

can't really be that much good to you.

It's gonna be a rough go.

You see how the way the media is making you out to be a monster,

so will the prosecution. There's no avoiding that.

Okay.

You're going to need to testify.

You up to that?

I think.

You all right?

If we lose, I'm...

really in trouble, aren't I?

Sela, you're being charged with a homicide.

If we lose, you go to prison.

They make me do everything.

How you doing, Harry?

I hear such nice things from Hosanna.

I can imagine.

I pulled the Sela Vinson case.

So I'm told... tell Puck he's a coward.

Are you sure you really want this one?

God knows I don't.

Maybe we can make both our lives a little easier.

Yeah, that's not gonna happen.

Kim, negligent homicide?

We've got a bullying problem here in Ohio,

did you know that?

So you're going to make an example of Sela?

Well, you said that, but okay.

She's 17 years old.

As was Hannah Wells, who is now dead.

Look, Harry, the cyber-bullying is out of control,

so is the gay-bashing, especially in this state.

We have to sound an alarm,

and a plea bargain is not going to do that.

We'd rather file homicide charges and lose

than quietly resolve it,

and unfortunately for your girl,

that puts her in the crosshairs.

She's a decent kid.

Look, negligent homicide is the best I can do.

There's nothing illegal

about accepting a life insurance policy

as consideration, it's just, you know...

- Beyond repugnant? - Bug.

Let's keep looking, there's gotta be some actual case law.

Adam, can I talk to you?

I may need a favor.

Um, I've decided to leave.

I got this really incredible job

and Harry is threatening to sue me,

and I was just wondering if you could help me.

I know that she's your boss and everything, but...

What do you mean, you've decided to leave?

You can't leave.

It's Christian Louboutin.

They make shoes.

You can't just leave.

Okay, folks, we're going to trial.

I'll need everybody on standby.

We're going to need the down and dirty

on all the laws regarding homicide and bullying liability.

Start with state and go national.

Politically speaking, it would be best for me

to take that assignment from a partner in this firm,

and not somebody else's.

Take it from me, then, we need the research.

Harry, Jenna just told me she's leaving.

Is... is that true?

Oh, she just thinks she is.

She's probably just having her...

God, it's been so long since I've had one

I can't even remember what they're called.

Harry, I know that technically we're separate firms,