Brenda Song | Judging Amy

• Genre: Legal drama
• Created by: Amy Brenneman, Bill D'Elia, John Tinker, Connie Tavel
• Developed by: Barbara Hall
• Directed by: Nancy Malone
• Starring: Amy Brenneman, Dan Futterman, Richard T. Jones, Jessica Tuck, Marcus Giamatti, Karle Warren, Tyne Daly, Jillian Armenante, Kevin Rahm, Timothy Omundson
• No. of seasons: 6
• No. of episodes: 138
• Executive producers: Amy Brenneman, Joseph Stern, Connie Tavel, Hart Hanson, Barbara Hall, James Frawley, Alex Taub
• Producers: Natalie Chaidez, Helen Shaver, Lyla Oliver, Carol Barbee, Barry O'Brien
• Running time: 60 minutes
• Production companies: Barbara Hall/Joseph Stern Productions, CBS Productions, 20th Century Fox Television
• Network: CBS
• Release: September 19, 1999 – May 3, 2005

Amy Gray, an attorney and Harvard University graduate, moves back to her hometown of Hartford, Connecticut after separating from her husband Michael in New York City. She and her six-year-old daughter Lauren move in with her widowed mother, Maxine Gray who is a caseworker for the Connecticut Department of Children and Families. The move back to Hartford also reunites Amy with her two brothers. Her older brother Peter juggles the operations of their late father's insurance company along with the struggles he and his wife Gillian are facing towards starting a family due to fertility issues. At the same time, Amy's younger brother Vincent an aspiring writer, struggles to jumpstart his career while working odd-end jobs. Later on, Amy's cousin Kyle McCarthy, a former med student, returns to help cope with the rehabilitation of his drug addiction. In her line of work Amy takes on a wide variety of challenging cases, with the assistance of her Court Services Officer Bruce van Exel and Court Clerk Donna Kozlowski both of whom she ultimately becomes good friends with. In the de facto series finale (the series was canceled after the conclusion of the season) Amy quits the judiciary to run for the U.S. Senate.

"Darkness for Light"

Maxine makes a great effort to track down the former dog of a little girl who has had a series of awful experiences. Amy presides of the case of a teenager illegally playing the stock market, and another who is the head of a school gang.