This episode features an extensive flashback of Daredevil's origin which is told for the first time outside of the comics.
In this series, Matt Murdock has blonde hair instead of red hair like in the comics.
This episode features the first appearance of Richard Fisk (A.K.A The Rose), the son of Wilson Fisk (A.K.A. The Kingpin).
Peter Parker being on trial parallels a story that was going on in the comics at the time during the infamous Clone Saga called "The Trial of Peter Parker" which had Peter Parker going on trial for multiple murders committed by his clone Kaine. However, in that story Matt Murdock is not Parker's lawyer because he can't afford Murdock's services.
When Peter Parker is interviewed by Richard Fisk for the Fisktronics Job, he is introduced to Wilson Fisk, the wealthy Philantropist the Hobgoblin tried to assassinate in The Hobgoblin, Part One (1995).