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6. Poisoned Pill

Alicia, Diane and Will must regroup when they're caught off-guard by a brilliant disabled attorney, Louis Canning, who uses his condition to sway a jury during a test case for a huge class action suit against a pharmaceutical company. Meanwhile, Peter's campaign is at a loss as to what to do with rising star Wendy Scott-Carr, and Kalinda reaches out to a former friend, Donna Seabrook, to tell her to stop spilling her secrets to Blake.

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The firm crosses swords with a brilliant disabled attorney named Louis Canning who is cynically deployed by a desperate pharmaceutical company to battle the claim that their new billion-dollar antidepressant caused the grisly murder-suicide of the firm's client's parents. Caitlin Fenton is the plaintiff in the test case. Winning it would open the door for tens of millions of dollars in class action money. In the event of loss, many other victims will be unable to collect any compensation for the deaths of their loved ones.

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