Writer:	David E. Kelley
Director:	David Jones (III)
Star:	Mandy Patinkin (Dr. Jeffrey Geiger),  Roxanne Hart (Camille Duschene Shutt),  Adam Arkin (Dr. Aaron Shutt),  Hector Elizondo (Dr. Phillip Watters),  Peter MacNicol (Alan Birch)
Recurring Role:	Ken Lerner (Jonathan Saunders),  Diane Venora (Dr. Geri Infante),  Peter Berg (Dr. Billy Kronk),  Thomas Gibson (Dr. Danny Nyland),  Stephen Elliott (Judge Harold Aldrich)
Guest Star:	Robert Kerbeck (Alan Dollof),  Catherine Paolone (Sandra),  Brian Grant (Paramedic),  Pruitt Taylor Vince (Walter Platt),  Richard Edson (Anthony Tedesco),  Fyvush Finkel (Douglas Wambaugh),  Jeremy Piven (Godfrey Nabbott),  Mike Starr (Mugger (uncredited))

Roma Maffia (Angela Giandamenicio) and E.G. Marshall (Dr. Arthur Thurmond) do not appear in this episode. (edit) Douglas Wambaugh is a crossover character from David E. Kelly's other show Picket Fences. (edit) Peter Berg (Dr. Billy Kronk) is introduced, although he is not yet a part of the opening credits. (edit) Music:
The Temptations - Get Ready
Tone Loc - Wild Thing (edit)

Dr. Jeffrey Geiger: (to Alan) The bit about you being neither brave or talented enough to measure up to the doctors at this hospital? I never met anyone with more courage. As for your talent, you keep us afloat every day. Every single day. (edit) Alan Birch: Your honor, I am not a toad. I'm here as an attorney in the normal course of legal business....You know, I just don't give a damn about your little trip to Florida. I don't give a rat's ass about them taking up your time. I say you, your honor, are a toad. Yeah, yeah, there he is, people. Look up at him. There he sits, Judge Toad, the Honorable Justice Toad.
Judge Aldrich: You are in contempt. Bailiff, take this pipsqueak into custody.
Alan: It's an abuse of power, your toadship.
Aldrich: Take him!
Alan: Yeah, take me. (as he is being cuffed) This is not respect. (edit) Wambaugh: I'm very good with penile cases. My brother-in-law's a mohel. Malpractice insurance, but he's got a two inch deductible. (edit)

Alan gives a speech to shame Nabbott, talking about how he looks through his daughter's eyes to measure his character. But he's only been a parent of a newborn just a matter of days. (edit) Nabbott's head was shaved when he had surgery two weeks earlier. But in this episode, his hair was completely grown out. (edit) Billy Kronk is a surgeon at Euclid Hospital, and knows Geri Infante. (edit)

Title: Small Sacrifices
Small Sacrifices is the name of a 1989 movie about a mother who attempts to murder her children. (edit)