Damn, Mitchell Whitfield can not catch a break on this show...
Steve's night courses get much more interesting when someone tries to run down the course's teacher, tax attorney Arnold Baskin. Things get more complicated when Agnes Benedetto, one of Baskin's coworkers that doubles as one of his students, looks into one of the files of Canfield, Carstairs, and Manners, the firm they both work for, and finds a dark secret within its walls
"How To Murder Your Lawyer" displays symptoms of the following tropes:
- 555: The beeper number the mooks were using to communicate with their boss bears the classic number.
- Amoral Attorney: Kenny doesn't have a high opinion of lawyers, as he is only working at the firm to earn enough money to open his own skydiving school. He doesn't exactly have a moral leg to stand on, however.
- And Starring: Cliff DeYoung as Jeffery T. Canfield.
- Butt-Monkey: Arnold has probably the worst week of his life in this episode.
- Car Fu: The episode begins with this being tried on Arnold. Agnes later reveals this is how her boss Mr. Alridge and one of the other witnesses met their demise.
- Constructive Body Disposal: The two goons Kenny sent after Arnold, being construction workers, plan to do this to Arnold and Agnes. One of them asks if they want to be "part of" either a mall being built in Santa Monica or a courthouse being built in Van Nuys.
- Disney Villain Death: One of the murdered witnesses was killed when he fell off his roof setting up Christmas decorations.
- The Ghost: We never see this "Manners", the third partner of the firm.
- Information Broker: Kenny effectively became this when he realized he had access to the names of witnesses in protection. Very lucrative names.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: This is would be the MO for the deaths of the witnesses Kenny sold out.
- The Mole: With his position as a messenger in the field, Kenny became one of these for any mobsters looking to "reacquaint" with people that were set to testify against them.
- Nepotism: Arnold only got into Canfield, Carstairs, and Manners because his father is one of the firm's biggest clients, something he is well aware of.
- Poorly Disguised Pilot: The second in a series of spinoffs that never got off the ground for this show. This one featuring Mitchell Whitfield as Arnold Baskin, a bumbling tax attorney by day and (Steve's) law course professor at evening, and Leah Remini as his wisecracking student Agnes Benedetto who happens to work as an assistant at his law firm. Together they would have solved crimes - if the series had been made.
- Staircase Tumble: Kenny plans to do this to Agnes when he catches her. Luckily, Arnold is waiting in the stairwell.
