Editing Judging Amy (section)

==Plot==
Amy Gray (Amy Brenneman), an attorney and [[Harvard University|Harvard]] 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 (Karle Warren) move in with her widowed mother, Maxine Gray (Tyne Daly) 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 (Marcus Giamatti) juggles the operations of their late father's insurance company along with the struggles he and his wife Gillian (Jessica Tuck) are facing towards starting a family due to fertility issues. At the same time, Amy's younger brother Vincent (Dan Futterman) an aspiring writer, struggles to jumpstart his career while working odd-end jobs. Later on, Amy's cousin Kyle McCarthy (Kevin Rahm), 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 (Richard T. Jones) and Court Clerk Donna Kozlowski (Jillian Armenante) 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 [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]].