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[[folder:Jill Carlan]]
!!Jill Carlan
->'''Played by:''' Hope Davis
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2x07_14.jpg]]
----
* GilliganCut: By the ninth episode of season one, Sandra claims she can't see the floor of her office. Just as Allison claims she's exaggerating, Jill comes in and declares she can't see the floor of Sandra's office.
* IronicEcho: In "Flippity-Flop", concerning a man who was locked in solitary and then forgotten about for four days. "What the DEA did to Torres? Stupid, awful, tragic even. Not criminal." Said by Roger to Jill when she demands he press charges, then Jill to Hope when she has to defend the DEA agent responsible.
* PyrrhicVictory: Jill feels terrible about having to defend a DEA Agent who locked up an innocent man and forgot about him for four days [[spoiler: and winning]], especially since she's the one who insisted Roger charge him in the first place.
* ThisIsReality: Jill points out that despite having the moral high ground, this isn't a TV show and Sandra's not going to win a case for an American Muslim accused of terrorism in her first case.
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[[folder:Roger Gunn]]
!!Roger Gunn
->'''Played by:''' Creator/BenShenkman
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rogergunn.jpg]]
----
* GilliganCut: When Sandra is assigned to defend a comedian who posted pictures of herself threatening the President, she states that it was obviously a joke. Jill retorts that the US Attorney's Office isn't known for its sense of humor. Cut to Roger Gunn laughing his head off in Seth's face.
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[[folder:Allison Adams]]
!!Allison Adams
->'''Played by:''' Jasmin Savoy Brown
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/allisonadams.jpg]]
----
* TheAce: For the defense.
* AlliterativeName: '''A'''llison '''A'''dams.
* BlackSheep: She's the only lawyer in a family of scientists and mathematicians.
* CommonNonsenseJury: There was a time Allison aimed for jury nullification in order to protect her client.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The opening scene of the series where six of the main cast arrive at the Mother Court. Seth and her arrive one after the other, each stating that they're not boyfriend and girlfriend that day because they want to stay professional.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Allison tries to convince the jury to disregard the law for the sake of her client who stole supplies from a relief ship.
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[[folder:Kate Littlejohn]]
!!Kate Littlejohn
->'''Played by:''' Susannah Flood
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/katelittlejohn.jpg]]
----
* TheAce: For the prosecution.
* DeadpanSnarker: No pan is deader.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Kate starts the series very closed off, but starts to at the very least tolerate those around her as time goes on.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The opening scene of the series where six of the main cast arrive at the Mother Court. She arrives shortly after Sandra, tries the door despite Sandra telling her it's still locked, then enforces the rules whether they benefit her (telling Jay to stop eating) or not (telling Sandra she can go in first because she got there first).
* NeatFreak: Kate keeps her office in impeccable order and hates when people intrude.
* OppositesAttract: Her with Anya. They're almost complete opposites in both their looks and personality.
* RunningGag: People barging into Kate's office for advice despite her not wanting anyone in her office, not wanting to give advice, and not caring what they have to say.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Kate believes that any errors with the government should be addressed by trained and elected professionals rather than civilians taking the law into their own hands.
* StealthHiBye: Kate pulls this on Roger in "Have You Met Leonard Knox?". By the way he reacts, it's not the first time.
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[[folder:Jay Simmons]]
!!Jay Simmons
->'''Played by:''' Wesam Keesh
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jaysimmons.jpg]]
----
* AbsurdPhobia: Jay claims to have a legitimate fear of fluorescent colors because of Kate's propensity for neon tabs on her paperwork.
-->'''Jay:''' Do you realize I have an actual fear of fluorescent colors because of her? Because of the tabs! A clinically verifiable phobia. I have been treated for this. ''Unsuccessfully!''
* CurseCutShort: While Jay and Kate are teamed up to meet with a school principal about their case.
-->'''Jay:''' Do I look like a prosecutor? Y'know, tightly wound, judgmental, huge stick up my--''*sees the principal*''--Principal Hatcher!
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The opening scene of the series where six of the main cast arrive at the Mother Court. He arrives an hour early, but thinks he's late, and is eating a breakfast taco despite the sign saying there's no food allowed.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Jay's client in the pilot claims to believe his cover story about being part of a shadowy government agency. Jay, ever the idealist, buys it until Kate shows him footage of the man bragging about putting one over on him.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In "Rahowa", Jay is forced to defend a white supremacist accused of shooting a politician. His closing argument, though expressing that there is plenty of reasonable doubt that said neo-Nazi was actually responsible, doesn't mince words about him still being a terrible person.
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[[folder:Leonard Knox]]
!!Leonard Knox
->'''Played by:''' Regé-Jean Page
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/leonardknox.jpg]]
----
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The opening scene of the series where six of the main cast arrive at the Mother Court. He arrives just before the day begins and walks right into the court despite Kate telling him that Sandra was first.
* PyrrhicVictory: Leonard clearly feels guilty about winning his first case, since Sandra was on the moral high ground--her client was clearly being entrapped by the FBI.
* WellDoneSonGuy: It's towards his mom rather than his father.
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[[folder:Seth Oliver]]
!!Seth Oliver
->'''Played by:''' Ben Rappaport
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2x10_59.jpg]]
----
* DontExplainTheJoke: He brings this up when Sandra jumps through hoops to justify that her client pointing a gun at a picture of the President on social media is still satire.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The opening scene of the series where six of the main cast arrive at the Mother Court. Him and Allison arrive one after the other, each stating that they're not boyfriend and girlfriend that day because they want to stay professional.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Seth is the least popular lawyer on the prosecutor's side because he lost his first case thanks to it being against his girlfriend Allison.
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[[folder:Sandra Bell]]
!!Sandra Bell
->'''Played by:''' Creator/BrittRobertson
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2x10_2.jpg]]
----
* AfraidOfDoctors: She's more afraid of hospitals in general. [[spoiler: Her mom died when she was younger, but she was too scared to go into her room to say goodbye and thus never got the chance]].
* CrusadingLawyer: She gets very emotionally invested in defending the downtrodden.
* DownerBeginning: The first episode sees Sandra lose her case defending a young man accused of terrorism (in a situation which is clearly [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrapment entrapment]]).
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The opening scene of the series where six of the main cast arrive at the Mother Court. Sandra is there over an hour early, stating that she woke up at 4:30 to get ready.
* MissingMom: Sandra's mom is dead. [[spoiler: Her dying in a hospital is what gave Sandra her fear of hospitals]].
* MonumentalDamage: Sandra's client Muhammad in the pilot is accused of trying to blow up the Statue of Liberty.
* MyGreatestFailure: Sandra sees her loss in the pilot this way, as she failed to protect a young man from being found guilty of terrorism even though he was clearly a victim of entrapment.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Sandra's case from "Have You Met Leonard Knox?" involves a comedian posting an image of herself threatening the President with a gun. It's clearly a reference to Kathy Griffin [[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/arts/trump-kathy-griffin.html doing something similar]].
* RunningGag: Always leaving her documents all over the place.
-->'''Allison:''' Why aren't you in your office?\\
'''Sandra:''' There's stuff in it.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Idealist Sandra is certain that her client was right for leaking government documents that showed them doing shady actions to target undocumented immigrants.
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[[folder:Tina Krissman]]
!!Tina Krissman
->'''Played by:''' Creator/AnnaDeavereSmith
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2x10_54.jpg]]
----
* CompanionCube: The judge-selection wheel. She and her family ended up using it for their smaller decisions, and she used it up until [[spoiler: the day her husband passed away]]. When it breaks she goes out of her way to get it repaired by the original creator instead of throwing it away and using a digital system.
* DeathGlare: Has an epic one for any attorneys who cross her.
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[[folder:Nicholas Byrne]]
!!Judge Nicholas Byrne
->'''Played by:''' Creator/VondieCurtisHall
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2x02_5.jpg]]
----
* DownerEnding: "World's Greatest Judge". [[spoiler: Despite trying everything he can do to protect a man being sent to prison for ten years for drug possession (a mere 57 grams), by the end Judge Byrne has no choice but to enforce the mandatory minimum. He makes no attempt to hide his contempt at the law and how little it actually solves.]]
* RogueJuror: When Judge Byrne is called for jury duty and gets selected (the defense lawyer didn't even pay attention to his responses) he's delighted at the idea of seeing the criminal justice system by another angle. He soon becomes the lone holdout when the rest of the jury votes "guilty" though. After his attempting to explain why the prosecution didn't prove the accused guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, he gets them to understand even so. They come around to his view and acquit. Unlike in most examples, he admits that most likely the defendant is guilty, but since the prosecution failed to make their case, he should go free.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Tries this in "World's Greatest Judge" when he tries everything he can to stop a man from being sentenced to the mandatory minimum of ten years for drug possession, [[spoiler: but it doesn't work out]].
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[[folder:Ted]]
!!Ted
->'''Played by:''' Creator/CharlesMichaelDavis
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2x10_24.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jill Carlan]]
!!Jill Carlan
->'''Played by:''' Hope Davis
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2x07_14.jpg]]
----
* GilliganCut: By the ninth episode of season one, Sandra claims she can't see the floor of her office. Just as Allison claims she's exaggerating, Jill comes in and declares she can't see the floor of Sandra's office.
* IronicEcho: In "Flippity-Flop", concerning a man who was locked in solitary and then forgotten about for four days. "What the DEA did to Torres? Stupid, awful, tragic even. Not criminal." Said by Roger to Jill when she demands he press charges, then Jill to Hope when she has to defend the DEA agent responsible.
* PyrrhicVictory: Jill feels terrible about having to defend a DEA Agent who locked up an innocent man and forgot about him for four days [[spoiler: and winning]], especially since she's the one who insisted Roger charge him in the first place.
* ThisIsReality: Jill points out that despite having the moral high ground, this isn't a TV show and Sandra's not going to win a case for an American Muslim accused of terrorism in her first case.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Roger Gunn]]
!!Roger Gunn
->'''Played by:''' Creator/BenShenkman
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rogergunn.jpg]]
----
* GilliganCut: When Sandra is assigned to defend a comedian who posted pictures of herself threatening the President, she states that it was obviously a joke. Jill retorts that the US Attorney's Office isn't known for its sense of humor. Cut to Roger Gunn laughing his head off in Seth's face.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Allison Adams]]
!!Allison Adams
->'''Played by:''' Jasmin Savoy Brown
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/allisonadams.jpg]]
----
* TheAce: For the defense.
* AlliterativeName: '''A'''llison '''A'''dams.
* BlackSheep: She's the only lawyer in a family of scientists and mathematicians.
* CommonNonsenseJury: There was a time Allison aimed for jury nullification in order to protect her client.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The opening scene of the series where six of the main cast arrive at the Mother Court. Seth and her arrive one after the other, each stating that they're not boyfriend and girlfriend that day because they want to stay professional.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Allison tries to convince the jury to disregard the law for the sake of her client who stole supplies from a relief ship.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kate Littlejohn]]
!!Kate Littlejohn
->'''Played by:''' Susannah Flood
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/katelittlejohn.jpg]]
----
* TheAce: For the prosecution.
* DeadpanSnarker: No pan is deader.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Kate starts the series very closed off, but starts to at the very least tolerate those around her as time goes on.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The opening scene of the series where six of the main cast arrive at the Mother Court. She arrives shortly after Sandra, tries the door despite Sandra telling her it's still locked, then enforces the rules whether they benefit her (telling Jay to stop eating) or not (telling Sandra she can go in first because she got there first).
* NeatFreak: Kate keeps her office in impeccable order and hates when people intrude.
* OppositesAttract: Her with Anya. They're almost complete opposites in both their looks and personality.
* RunningGag: People barging into Kate's office for advice despite her not wanting anyone in her office, not wanting to give advice, and not caring what they have to say.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Kate believes that any errors with the government should be addressed by trained and elected professionals rather than civilians taking the law into their own hands.
* StealthHiBye: Kate pulls this on Roger in "Have You Met Leonard Knox?". By the way he reacts, it's not the first time.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jay Simmons]]
!!Jay Simmons
->'''Played by:''' Wesam Keesh
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jaysimmons.jpg]]
----
* AbsurdPhobia: Jay claims to have a legitimate fear of fluorescent colors because of Kate's propensity for neon tabs on her paperwork.
-->'''Jay:''' Do you realize I have an actual fear of fluorescent colors because of her? Because of the tabs! A clinically verifiable phobia. I have been treated for this. ''Unsuccessfully!''
* CurseCutShort: While Jay and Kate are teamed up to meet with a school principal about their case.
-->'''Jay:''' Do I look like a prosecutor? Y'know, tightly wound, judgmental, huge stick up my--''*sees the principal*''--Principal Hatcher!
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The opening scene of the series where six of the main cast arrive at the Mother Court. He arrives an hour early, but thinks he's late, and is eating a breakfast taco despite the sign saying there's no food allowed.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Jay's client in the pilot claims to believe his cover story about being part of a shadowy government agency. Jay, ever the idealist, buys it until Kate shows him footage of the man bragging about putting one over on him.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In "Rahowa", Jay is forced to defend a white supremacist accused of shooting a politician. His closing argument, though expressing that there is plenty of reasonable doubt that said neo-Nazi was actually responsible, doesn't mince words about him still being a terrible person.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Leonard Knox]]
!!Leonard Knox
->'''Played by:''' Regé-Jean Page
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/leonardknox.jpg]]
----
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The opening scene of the series where six of the main cast arrive at the Mother Court. He arrives just before the day begins and walks right into the court despite Kate telling him that Sandra was first.
* PyrrhicVictory: Leonard clearly feels guilty about winning his first case, since Sandra was on the moral high ground--her client was clearly being entrapped by the FBI.
* WellDoneSonGuy: It's towards his mom rather than his father.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Seth Oliver]]
!!Seth Oliver
->'''Played by:''' Ben Rappaport
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2x10_59.jpg]]
----
* DontExplainTheJoke: He brings this up when Sandra jumps through hoops to justify that her client pointing a gun at a picture of the President on social media is still satire.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The opening scene of the series where six of the main cast arrive at the Mother Court. Him and Allison arrive one after the other, each stating that they're not boyfriend and girlfriend that day because they want to stay professional.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Seth is the least popular lawyer on the prosecutor's side because he lost his first case thanks to it being against his girlfriend Allison.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Sandra Bell]]
!!Sandra Bell
->'''Played by:''' Creator/BrittRobertson
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2x10_2.jpg]]
----
* AfraidOfDoctors: She's more afraid of hospitals in general. [[spoiler: Her mom died when she was younger, but she was too scared to go into her room to say goodbye and thus never got the chance]].
* CrusadingLawyer: She gets very emotionally invested in defending the downtrodden.
* DownerBeginning: The first episode sees Sandra lose her case defending a young man accused of terrorism (in a situation which is clearly [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrapment entrapment]]).
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The opening scene of the series where six of the main cast arrive at the Mother Court. Sandra is there over an hour early, stating that she woke up at 4:30 to get ready.
* MissingMom: Sandra's mom is dead. [[spoiler: Her dying in a hospital is what gave Sandra her fear of hospitals]].
* MonumentalDamage: Sandra's client Muhammad in the pilot is accused of trying to blow up the Statue of Liberty.
* MyGreatestFailure: Sandra sees her loss in the pilot this way, as she failed to protect a young man from being found guilty of terrorism even though he was clearly a victim of entrapment.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Sandra's case from "Have You Met Leonard Knox?" involves a comedian posting an image of herself threatening the President with a gun. It's clearly a reference to Kathy Griffin [[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/arts/trump-kathy-griffin.html doing something similar]].
* RunningGag: Always leaving her documents all over the place.
-->'''Allison:''' Why aren't you in your office?\\
'''Sandra:''' There's stuff in it.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Idealist Sandra is certain that her client was right for leaking government documents that showed them doing shady actions to target undocumented immigrants.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tina Krissman]]
!!Tina Krissman
->'''Played by:''' Creator/AnnaDeavereSmith
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2x10_54.jpg]]
----
* CompanionCube: The judge-selection wheel. She and her family ended up using it for their smaller decisions, and she used it up until [[spoiler: the day her husband passed away]]. When it breaks she goes out of her way to get it repaired by the original creator instead of throwing it away and using a digital system.
* DeathGlare: Has an epic one for any attorneys who cross her.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nicholas Byrne]]
!!Judge Nicholas Byrne
->'''Played by:''' Creator/VondieCurtisHall
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2x02_5.jpg]]
----
* DownerEnding: "World's Greatest Judge". [[spoiler: Despite trying everything he can do to protect a man being sent to prison for ten years for drug possession (a mere 57 grams), by the end Judge Byrne has no choice but to enforce the mandatory minimum. He makes no attempt to hide his contempt at the law and how little it actually solves.]]
* RogueJuror: When Judge Byrne is called for jury duty and gets selected (the defense lawyer didn't even pay attention to his responses) he's delighted at the idea of seeing the criminal justice system by another angle. He soon becomes the lone holdout when the rest of the jury votes "guilty" though. After his attempting to explain why the prosecution didn't prove the accused guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, he gets them to understand even so. They come around to his view and acquit. Unlike in most examples, he admits that most likely the defendant is guilty, but since the prosecution failed to make their case, he should go free.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Tries this in "World's Greatest Judge" when he tries everything he can to stop a man from being sentenced to the mandatory minimum of ten years for drug possession, [[spoiler: but it doesn't work out]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ted]]
!!Ted
->'''Played by:''' Creator/CharlesMichaelDavis
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2x10_24.jpg]]
----
[[/folder]]
