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Defense attorney Theodore (Ted) Hoffman is a criminal litigator and the head of his own firm, Hoffman and Associates. Backed by a cadre of young associates, Hoffman was a masterful, though gruff, criminal lawyer who zealously represented his clients in high profile cases. Patricia Clarkson played his long-suffering wife, Annie. Always waiting in the wings to play the villain was Stanley Tucci, who played the part of Richard Cross. In the program's second season, Benzali was replaced by Anthony LaPaglia, who played Jimmy Wyler, a disgruntled assistant district attorney who left his government job to begin his own practice. Fortuitously, he steps in to head Hoffman's old firm just as it is beginning to suffer from his absence