Paul Lewiston is managing partner in the Boston office and counsel to Crane, Poole & Schmidt. Paul is experienced in client relations and an expert in Far Eastern markets and the legal issues of companies operating in this part of the world. Unlike Denny and Alan, Paul usually does things strictly «according to the book.» He had several antagonistic arguments with Denny and Alan over their apparent lack of respect for the law. Her middle-aged daughter, Rachel, is introduced as a methamphetamine addict in Season 2, and Paul has her kidnapped and taken to a rehab center. He takes custody of his daughter (granddaughter) Fiona. After that, as he is related to his grandson with his father figure, he is rarely seen in the Boston office. It was Lewiston who negotiated the acquisition of Crane, Poole & Schmidt by a Chinese law firm in the series finale, although he later began to regret the action. Garrett Wells was introduced in the premiere of the second season as a cheeky young lawyer who is obviously attracted to Denise. He goes over her head with some clients, but helps her by blackmailing her ex-husband`s lawyer/pastor to get her to abstain from her requests for money. He is not as effective in the courtroom and has been humiliated more than once by sober judges. He is also intimidated by Catherine Piper, Alan Shore`s caterer and former assistant, who actually drives him out of his own office. We will not see him again after the end of season 2. It is not clear if he is still with the company or if he was fired by the partners without any explanation.

During the second season, he begins a relationship with a paralegal and initially shames the company for his misaligned sexual encounters. Boston Legal is an American film directed by David E. Kelley. The series, starring James Spader, Candice Bergen and William Shatner, was produced for ABC in collaboration with 20th Century Fox Television. Boston Legal was released from October 3, 2004 to December 8, 2008. The series is a spin-off of the Kelley The Practice series and stars actors such as Spader, Rhona Mitra, Lake Bell and Shatner. He is located in the law firm Crane, Poole & Schmidt. As a senior partner at Crane, Poole & Schmidt, Carl left the New York office to help Shirley manage the Boston office after Paul Lewiston left a leadership role to focus on raising his granddaughter.

At first, he couldn`t accept the reckless behavior of the Boston office and thought of returning to New York. However, he found his feet in the Boston office and became a mentor to the staff, especially Katie Lloyd, Clarence Bell and Jerry Espenson. It is also part of the sometimes surreal legal activities of the Litigation Division, including bringing a lawsuit against television channels in which the plaintiffs demanded that they broadcast programs for people with functional brains. Carl is an old Shirley flame and proposes to her in «Thanksgiving.» Shirley and Carl are married in a civil ceremony by Antonin Scalia, a Supreme Court justice, in Nimmo Bay in the series finale. Coquillette clerked for Justice Robert Braucher of the Massachusetts Supreme Court and Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the U.S. Supreme Court. He has taught legal ethics and legal history at Boston University School of Law, Cornell Law School, and Harvard Law School.

He became a partner at the Boston law firm palmer & Dodge for six years, where he specialized in complex litigation. Daniel R. Coquillette was appointed J. Donald Monan, Professor at S.J. University at Boston College in 1996. He was Dean of Boston College School of Law from 1985 to 1993. Since 2008, he has also been a faculty member at Harvard Law School as charles Warren Visiting Professor of American Legal Education. He teaches and writes in the fields of legal history and professional liability. Tara Wilson first acted as a paralegal at Young, Frutt & Berlutti.

Tara was fired from the company after informing Alan of her impending dismissal and is hired to work at Crane, Poole & Schmidt, the company that represents Alan`s civil case. She then became a lawyer. Tara and Alan eventually began sex after his breakup with Sally Heep, although their relationship had a rough time when he hired a group of men to attack a man he had already fought with. When Tara reconnects with one of her ex-boyfriends, the two separate and she quickly resigns from Crane, Poole & Schmidt. Their departure leads Alan to question his emotional fitness for a relationship. Dennis `Denny` Crane, named partner of Crane, Poole & Schmidt, is a renowned lawyer with fifty years of practice who says he has never lost a case and never will. He is an eccentric who considers himself a legend and likes to say his own name to «sign» his verbal statements. In one of the latest episodes of The Practice, he explained that people often don`t believe they`re in the room with a caption, so he says his own name to let them know it`s true. Denny suffers from memory loss and confusion in the early stages of Alzheimer`s disease, but often refers to his problems as «mad cow disease» when his statements are confusing to others or when he himself becomes confused. Although he still hears cases frequently in Season 1 of Boston Legal, he seems to have lost most of his talent for complex litigation in Season 2, although he still shows a flair for appealing to a jury in closing arguments.