Weinberg, Mason and Wright Law Firm

Background

After the bombing of the Weinberg-Mason Law Firm by agents of Caligostro II, which left Harriet Weinberg out of work, Xadium was brought into her law practice as a Defense attorney for metahumans, illegal alien immigrants and others she could not represent in order to supplement her income, as he had a valid Interplanetary Legal Doctorate. (IL.D)

With the help of the alien community, Xadium and Harriet found the Weinberg-Xadium law firm.

After the departure of Doctor Xadium, it became the Weinberg, Mason and Wright Law Firm when Harriet was invited to become a partner of the Wright and Co. Law Firm.

Cases

The Ad Hoc illegal alien immigrant judicial system. Guilty until proven innocent. That's the way the justice system works here. All trials start immediately and are mandated to last no more than three days. Prosecutors are free to introduce any evidence, fabricated or not, and manipulate witness testimony to highlight only those facts damaging to defendants, the truth be damned. Rules of Evidence and Discovery need not apply.

The courts are no longer about protecting the innocent or punishing the guilty, but for convicting everyone unless the defense is very, very good. Guilty verdicts outnumber Innocent verdicts by a ratio of 10:1. Everything is televised on a Subwave network, with full commentary and live audience reactions.

The judge is a Vorlon, Gelkesh Naranek, whose proclamations are usually too abstract and incomprehensible to deal with. The only things that he says that usually make sense are "Innocent, Guilty, Overruled," and "Sustained." Everything else people just pretend they understand.

It has been revealed that the Alien Zone court was created to attract more alien refugees to the area, in order to bring the eyes of the galaxy upon it (due to the large expat populations), thus becoming influential and an accepted venue for prosecutions under the aegis of the Shadow Proclamation, all in order to create suitable staging ground for the trial of Hazel Ninegate.

Case 1: Brix-a-brak

Xadium resisted Harriet's entreaties to join her firm until his best friend, the Time Lord Brixonian was accused of murdering an Orion Slave Girl, with the key witness for the Prosecution being a passing Melnorme Trader.

After proving conclusively that Brix could not have been present at the murder scene at the time of death, Xadium was able to demonstrate that the Melnorme was, in fact, the murderer due to the prediction of the MetaChron which was used as the murder weapon.

Case 2: The Man behind the Curtain

When a prominent Alterian Philanthropist, Oorampo, is murdered in Akihibara, the eyewitness testimony of "Sexy" Librarian Idol Busty Maple--who claimed to see the murder from her hotel room overlooking the crime scene--is used to indict Federation Investigator Birdy Cephon Altera.

Xadium manages to poke holes in Maple's testimony when, despite her own personal airtight alibi, it comes to light that a man who checked into the hotel with her was spying on Oorampo and could also be the killer. But who is he, and can Xadium tie him to the crime before the Federation arrives to extradite Birdy?

Xadium's investigations lead him to the doorstep of eccentric businessman Martin Mentat, who apparently has been blackmailing many of the influential figures in immigrant alien society, threatening to expose their communities to humanity if they don't furnish him with exotic alien technology.

Mentat quickly turns the tables on Xadium, fabricating evidence out of whole cloth due to the testimony of his blackmail victims, accusing Xadium of the murder...

Xadium is forced to defend himself in a trial where he is up against the famed Centauri Prosecutor, Kellan Mollari.

Thanks to Harriet Weinberg finding a list of Mentat's blackmail clients, Xadium is able to bluff that he has records which, if released to the Raxacoricofallapatorians, would get Mentat summarily executed. This causes Mentat to withdraw his claims, vowing revenge.

With no solid evidence left against Birdy Cephon Altera, the Federation investigator is acquitted and returns to her work, owing the Time Lord a favour...

Out of gratitude for getting their blackmailer off their backs, the alien community comes together and provides space for a modest law office... "Weinberg-Xadium Law."

Case 3: Chartruse Headlamp's Light

Bill Ballmer, a.k.a. the "Chartruse Headlamp", a popular SubWave TV Hero, is accused of killing the actor behind his fictional villain, the wicked "Sylvestro" via power battery to the face.

After Harriet goes undercover as a production assistant, she discovers that there is a deeper secret at Stanley Studios-- five years ago, there was a horrible accident in which Sylvestro's actor, Hannibal Lectro, killed another man on set during a botched action scene. The accident was covered up, and the producers blackmailed Hannibal, punishing him by making him work for almost nothing in grueling servitude, doing the most demeaning jobs possible.

Xadium and Harriet discover that, fed up with his treatment, the victim had dressed up as the Chartruse Headlamp in an attempt to sneak up on the producers unaware and detonate a bomb hidden in the power battery prop to kill them. A scuffle ensued, and he was killed in self defense. In order to keep the Producers out of jail, Ballmer was framed, with Lectro redressed in his Sylvestro costume to make it look like an on-screen rivalry turned real.

Ballmer was acquitted and promised the duo whatever help he could provide in future.

Case 4: When good Barristers go Bad?

Prosecutor Mollari is accused of shooting another man to death in the dead of night in the middle of a nigh-deserted alley with a black market laser pistol. No one will defend him, due to his previous ruthless methods of getting his opponents' clients judged guilty. Compounding the issue is his Centauri Pride, which prevents him from accepting Xadium's offer of representation.

Finally, Mollari consents to representation when it becomes clear his fellow Centauri have decided it would be more politically expedient to let him hang.

After a frustrating, grueling trial against feared Klingon Prosecutor K'targ, Xadium is able to get Mollari cleared based on the testimony of a Pink cat who had been in the alleyway.

Case 5: Cirque De So lame

The Psychic Circus has come to town! But when the ringmaster, Kingpin is murdered one lonely might, suspicion falls on his friend, the Vulpanan werewolf Mags. Topping things off, there's a new prosecutor in town, the cocky Gallifreyan Valeyard Arx Sylvanran, and she has a grudge against Xadium via Sakura-- not to mention a nasty Ferengi electrowhip!

Case 6: Bane of My Existence

Xadium and Harriet take their first defeat as they are played by notorious interstellar celebrity Max Vector, a scrawny Slitheen who was accused of killing his rival, Biggie Tiny D. The evidence seemed too good against Vector, like it was an obvious frame job. Realizing almost too late that their client was in fact truly guilty--having paid his assassin Space Butler to plant over-the-top evidence implicating him, they mount their best defense against Prosecutor Sylvanran, but she wears them down and eventually shuts down their case. Suffering their first loss, they're still glad justice was done and they were able to do their best as defense lawyers.

Case 7: Turnabout Vindication

While Xadium is off on his honeymoon, Harriet is framed for the murder of a burglar dressed as Santa Claus who turned out to be a Allasomorph, thus putting the case under the jurisdiction of the Alien Zone courts. Harriet finds out from her old friend Marvin Grossberg, Esq., that the Wright and Co. Law Firm is back in business, and gets Phoenix Wright to successfully defend her, in the process revealing that the murderer was actually a jealous Changeling disguised as an ashtray that turned itself into a gun and shot the victim.

Case 8: Bionic Bobbit

It's changes all around for the court as Arx Sylvanran abruptly resigns her position as Prosecutor, leaving it all to (relative) newcomer Franziska von Karma. And what a case it is! A messy divorce in which "The Bionic Woman", Jamie Sommers, is accused of taking "a little off the tip" of her estranged husband, "The Bionic Man" Steve Austin! But is all really as it seems? Fembots, shapechangers and astromechs galore in the first case soley litigated by Earth Lawyers!

Having cut through all the dross, Franziska vowed to get a guilty verdict in ten minutes. After getting Jamie Sommers to reveal she was a fembot all along, von Karma got her "guilty" in eight minutes, fifty-seven seconds.

Case 9: The Mournful Madman

After El-Aurian scientist Tolian Soran is arrested for killing a Sensorite entertainer, Prosecutor von Karma goes for the death penalty, but after a spirited defense by Harriet Weinberg reveals that the Sensorite was tormenting Soran's girlfriend Leandra, the most von Karma can get is a hundred years for Justifiable Homicide. But was the sentence enough...?