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Heart

Nick Fallin finds himself the advocate for a 12-year-old girl, Lesley, who needs to be adopted by foster parents immediately in order to receive a heart transplant. Laurie Solt, a social worker for Legal Services (LS), is having trouble placing her due to the many demands of caring for a child with congenital heart disease. Inspired by Lesley's strength after she learns her current foster parents are unable to adopt her, Nick takes the search on as a personal campaign to save Lesley's life. As hope of finding suitable foster care fades, Nick decides that the only way to save Lesley's life is to become her legal guardian. Nick's supervisor at LS, Alvin Masterson questions Nick's ability to care for Lesley. Eventually, the judge does grant Nick legal guardianship. Meanwhile, one of Burton Fallin's old friends, Harry Josephs is dying of cancer and tells Burton he is challenging the employment contract of Hopeson, Inc., which terminates employment if an employee is unable to work for 90 consecutive days. Hopeson Inc. is a long time client of Fallin & Assoc. and Burton helped finalize the original employment contracts. Burton struggles with the responsibility of fighting for his clients and opportunity to stand by his friend.

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  • Originally Aired November 20, 2001
  • Runtime 45 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-PG
  • Production Code 107
  • Network CBS
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Name Type Role
David Hollander Writer
Cooper Thornton Guest Star
Raymond Patterson Guest Star
Lily Nicksay Guest Star
Norman Johnson Jr Guest Star
Julie Pop Guest Star
Holmes Osborne Guest Star
Michael Winters Guest Star
Bobbin Bergstrom Guest Star
Michael Bryan French Guest Star
JoBeth Williams Guest Star
Paul Yeuell Guest Star
Robert Loggia Guest Star
Rich Williams Guest Star
Jeremy Kagan Director