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Jane represents a mother whose son is pushing for her to sue the sperm bank she used to conceive him. As Grayson and Vanessa's wedding nears, Parker organizes a bachelor party for Grayson who incidentally gives a stripper legal advice that leads to her subsequent firing. Hoping to make things right, Grayson represents the stripper in court and discovers Judge Hemmings - Vanessa's father - is presiding over the case.—Lifetime

"Drop Dead Diva" - "Dream Big" - July 10, 2011

It's a good one tonight as everyone's got fun cases and knotty personal issues.

Jane takes on the case of a little person, Eli, and his mom. They want to sue the sperm bank that she got the donation from for negligence since they claimed to offer "state of the art." But when they take this case to court the judge dismisses the case because it seems like they're arguing "wrongful life." This horrifies Eli's mom who insists that he is perfect. The problem is that the medical issues associated with dwarfism are crippling them financially, she's working three jobs. Jane resolves to think of something and she does: product liability. She argues that the sperm bank should've known that there was a test for the mutated gene that causes dwarfism. The mother is again horrified that they're arguing that Eli is a "defective product." But Eli is on board, especially after he shows Jane a note that she wrote to him before he was born wishing him to grow up healthy and strong to become an astronaut or athlete or even the president. Jane takes the case back to court and the sperm bank CEO claims they didn't know about the test. Then Jane gets the bright idea to ask the lab that offers the test for its records. And therein lies the smoking gun: before Eli was conceived the sperm bank declined to buy the test from the lab because it was too expensive. The cost? $75 a test. They wanted to wait until the price came down. And, it turns out, that the CEO who claims he didn't know about the test, was the one who turned it down. The sperm bank settles for a nice big figure.

While all of this is going on, Jane is leaving increasingly desperate messages for the doctor with whom she slept with on the first date. She finally leaves a strongly worded message saying she doesn't normally sleep with a guy on a first date but she thought he was different but realizes he's just an arrogant doctor with a God complex. And then he shows up on her doorstep apologizing for not calling her back but he left his phone at her house -- it fell under the bed when she took his pants off-- and then he had back to back surgeries. She goes and retrieves the phones and deletes the messages. But, of course, since he's a doctor he had to check his messages and he sweetly gives her a hard time as he takes her out on a second date.

Meanwhile, Jane is also trying to juggle scheduling for Grayson's bachelor party. She planned a nice dinner but Parker hijacks the plans and decides to move the action to a strip club. The problem is Grayson was supposed to meet Vanessa's dad -- a judge-- after the dinner to ask permission to marry her. (He's old-fashioned apparently.) Grayson puts this off for the strip club and in the process meets a stripper who is having trouble breathing. She tells him the smoke machine aggravates her asthma. He advises her of her rights as an employee. The only problem with that is that the owner, Bobby Z, who is also a lawyer than advises her that she's an independent contractor not an employee and he'll do what she says. Grayson says he'll take care of it and gets a quick hearing-- and blows off his future father-in-law yet again-- and gets the stripper her rights to employee benefits. Unfortunately, this causes Bobby Z to tell her and the other strippers that if they're employees he has a right to their tips and takes them from them all. Grayson again gets a quick hearing and takes care of it again. And this time Bobby Z fires the girls and convinces other strip club owners not to hire them. One more time, Grayson gets a hearing and hauls all the owners into court for conspiracy. The judge he gets? His future father-in-law. Luckily, Vanessa's dad sides with Grayson and the strippers. And in a cute move Grayson moves to make a motion and asks for Vanessa's hand in marriage. She has shown up just for this moment and her dad lays his gavel down in approval.

In the Fred and Stacy storyline, Stacy is concerned that Fred won't talk about his past. Of course, as a guardian angel he has no past. So he convinces a temp in the office-- played by Jennifer Tilly-- who is a part-time actress to pose as his mom. They all go to lunch and she acts so drunk, imperious, and loopy Stacy figures he was ashamed of her and says they never have to spend time with her again, much to his relief.

Meanwhile Parker has been stalking Kim to hire her back to the firm. She keeps rebuffing him and even has other interviews and has been asking him for recommendations. He refuses to give them. Jane and Terri offer up some glowing ones, however, in an effort to stave off her return. This doesn't work though because at the end of the episode Kim shows up in Parker's office and says she'll return on two conditions: a ten percent raise and no contact between them. Parker asks if he can ask why she came back. She says he cannot.