Wolfram and Hart
Wolfram and Hart is a business that features in Angel.
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History
Wolfram & Hart, Attorneys at Law was an organization headed by the demonic Senior Partners who operated in the mortal plane as a law firm. Originally, the Wolf, the Ram and the Hart were a trio of minor demons during the era of the Old Ones who were said to had been barely stronger than Vampires in the demon age. (Episode: Shells)
In Los Angeles, one of its notable clients was the vampire Russell Winters who was a powerful figure in the city. He intended to prey on Cordelia Chase until he was killed by Angel. (Episode: City Of...)
A representative for the firm attended a magic auction held by the empath demon named Barney. Among the items he was selling was the captured Cordelia Chase who received visions from the Powers that Be thus making her a valuable acquisition. Mac who was the Wolfram & Hart representative managed to get enough funds authorise to outbid everyone at the auction where she intended to harvest Cordelia's eyes. However, Angel arrived at the scene and freed his staff member thus leading to another loss for the firm. (Episode: Parting Gifts)
Wolfram & Hart was representing a case on a murder case when their defence was completed destroyed by Angel after he produced a witness named Danny Marquez that implicated the firm's client of murder. This resulted in their client being sent to prison and another loss for the firm with the vampire becoming a problem for their continued operations. Lindsey MacDonald and Lilah Morgan later gained a new client named Faith who was a Slayer from Sunnydale. She was a wanted criminal with numerous counts of murder charges made against her but Wolfram and Hart were ready to represent her and even pay her for killing Angel. (Episode: Five by Five) However, instead, Angel offered her a shelter as she was struggling to come to terms with her past actions. As a result, the team of lawyers decided to have Faith eliminated with them hiring a demon for their task but the assassin was killed by his targets. Lindsey then decided to change tactics and instead leaked information on Faith's position to the police who moved to arrest her as she was a wanted fugitive. (Episode: Sanctuary)
Eventually, the Los Angeles branch of Wolfram and Hart was rebuilt and it was re-staffed with employees. After Jasmine's defeat, the recently deceased Lilah Morgan was brought back from her stay in Hell to continue her service to the Senior Partners as she had signed away her soul to them in her contract. She was sent to approach Angel and offer him along with his comrades at Angel Investigations full control over the Los Angeles branch as a reward for their actions. (Episode: Home)
There were factions within Wolfram and Hart that wanted to see the new employers destroyed but operated in secret. (Episode: Unlashed)
Overview
In appearance, Wolfram and Heart appeared as a full service law firm who offered services to members of the demonic community. (Episode: City Of...)
They were said to had done their best work in the dark. (Episode: Deep Down)
The company had a number of divisions that included:
- Research and Intelligence Department :
- Practical Science Department :
- Real Estate Division :
- Special Projects Division :
A conduit to the Senior Partners was an interdimensional space known as the White Room with not many knowing of its existence even amongst its employees. Entering an elevator in a corporate office, a specific combination of buttons led to the manifestation of a white button that sent the occupants to the White Room. Once there, they encountered a conduit to the Senior Partners that imparted instructions directly to people there. (Episode: Forgiving)
They could be represented by statues of a wolf, a ram and a hart. (Episode: Through the Looking Glass) Thus, they could serve as a representative for the Senior Partners and could impart instructions to employees of the company. (Episode: Conviction)
As they resided on a different plane, the Senior Partners had little direct influence over the affairs on Earth. In the mortal world, they relied on the actions of the Circle of the Black Thorn that were a secret society who enacted the plans in bringing about the apocalypse. (Episode: Power Play)
Employees of the company were required to sign a standard perpetuity clause that sold their souls to the Senior Partners in the fine print. Thus, even in death, they could be summoned to continue any service deemed of them by the company. There was no means of escaping service as even destroying the physical contract simply saw it re-form back within the archives. (Episode: Home)
Every 75 years, one of the Senior Partners took on corporeal form and conducted a review of the company's employees. This saw them manifest in the shape of a Kleynach demon where the dark, evil and merciless entity ruthlessly killed those that failed the review. (Episode: Reprise)
The firm was able to enhance the mind of a person and impart a comprehensive knowledge of the law directly into their brains. (Episode: Conviction)
Wolfram and Hart was said to hold offices in every major city in the world and even more outside of it. (Episode: A Hole in the World) Agents of the Senior Partners even resided in dimensions such as Pylea. (Episode: Through the Looking Glass)
Employees
- Suvarta : a demon said to be one of the Senior Partners. (Episode: Deep Down)
- Holland Manners :
- Nathan Reed :
- Lilah Morgan :
- Lindsey McDonald :
- Lee Mercer : a male lawyer who was a colleague of Lindsey McDonald and Lilah Morgan. (Episode: Sense & Sensitivity)
- Linwood Murrow :
- Mac : a female lawyer who operated for the form who attended an auction held by the empath demon Barney. (Episode: Parting Gifts)
- Gavin Park :
- Angel :
- Charles Gunn :
- Eve :
- Marcus Hamilton :
- Rutherford Sirk : a male former Watcher who took several tomes from them after the destruction of the Watcher Council where he came to serve as the head of the archives of the Research and Intelligence Department. (Episode: Home)
- Knox : (Episode: Home)
- Harmony Kendall :
Notes
- Wolfram & Hart were created by Joss Whedon where they featured in the setting of the Buffy-Angel universe.
- A reference to the Wolf, Ram and the Hart appeared in Avengers: Age of Ultron when Thor Odinson experienced a dark vision of the future where he saw statues of a wolf, ram and a hart. In the Director's Commentary, Joss Whedon confirmed that this was a nod to Angel with it being a referenced to Wolfram & Hart's leaders the Senior Partners.
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