Cleaver Greene
Played by: Richard Roxburgh
- Author Avatar: Executive producer Charles Waterstreet is himself a practising barrister from Sydney with a reputation that precedes him.
- Amicable Exes: Cleaver and Wendy, to the point of barely being exes at some points, especially in Season 2 when she briefly falls back in love with him.
- Amoral Attorney: Being an extremely proficient lawyer, Cleaver will twist the rules, consult outside sources and even sleep with his clients if he thinks it'll help. It's played with, though; while Cleave does some pretty amoral things, he's shown to have genuine moral compass that makes him reluctant to defend people who don't deserve his help like Eddie Langhorn, Damien Trengrove or Mick Corella. He's also shown to be legitimately furious when he finds out too late that Denny Lorton really was guilty of killing a teenager.
- Batman Gambit: While Cleaver's usual tricks involve Xanatos Speed Chess, he can pull off this every now and then. His scheme with the piss-soaked tax documents is a good example.
- The Casanova: Cleave has no trouble whatsoever in hooking up with the opposite sex, and has a long string of affairs and sexual trysts with various married women. Not to mention his regular visits to the brothel. Even his ex-wife Wendy briefly falls in love with Cleave all over again in series 2. Subverted with Missy, who spurns nearly every advance he ever makes on her after she quits the brothel.
- Deadpan Snarker: Cleaver's sense of humour is certainly dry.
- Guile Hero: As befitting a lawyer, Cleaver really can talk his way in and out of trouble.
- The Hedonist: Cleaver himself, but he'll insist to anyone who'll listen, especially Fuzz and Wendy, that At Least I Admit It.
- Large Ham: Whenever he gets excited or angry.
- Insistent Terminology: Cleaver wasn't acquitted from jail, he was 'exonerated'.
- Questionable Consent: Cleaver is basically coerced into getting involved with Kirsty by Col. While he isn't specifically forced to be with her, Col unsubtly makes it clear he'll get hurt if she isn't kept happy. This includes sleeping with her, as Cleaver clearly thinks she won't be happy if he refuses. It only ends when he gets Col to confess his feelings for Kirsty, so they get together instead.
David Potter
Played by: Matt Day
- Blind Without 'Em: David Potter is extremely nearsighted without his glasses, and eventually decides to get laser correction for his vision.
- Butt-Monkey: Harry-Sorry-David gets hit with this trope repeatedly: he quits the Bar to (unknowingly) become a back-bencher in the Opposition; he goes steady with Missy (a former sex worker, as everyone except him knows); and he gets shot TWICE on top of everything else.
Wendy Greene
Played by: Caroline Brazier
- Amicable Exes: With Cleave, to the point of barely being exes.
- Only Sane Man: Wendy has to be this to Greene almost all the time.
Melissa 'Missy' Partridge
Played by: Adrienne Pickering
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Clearly she was this, although she quits in the pilot.
- Secret-Identity Identity: Missy goes through a variation of this over her past as a prostitute.
