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Wolfram & Hart, Attorneys at Law is a Fiction al international and interdimensional Law Firm in the television series '' Angel ''. HISTORY "The Wolf , The Ram , and The Hart " is the name of an ancient organization of demons. The group is relatively weak at its inception, and is not regarded as a threat by the Old Ones .1 Over time, they gain power and influence, eventually leaving this dimension altogether. From this point onward they are known on Earth as the Senior Partners , and enact their will through various puppet organizations. One of the groups they command on Earth is the law firm of Wolfram & Hart. While the Senior Partners have left Earth's dimension, the source of Wolfram & Hart's power, the Home Office, exists on Earth itself. Without the evil that resides within every living person, the firm would not exist.2 In 2004, the firm maintains offices in every major city in the world.3 OPERATIONS As a law firm, Wolfram & Hart typically defends clients who are morally questionable or downright evil, including stalkers,4 mobsters,5 murderers,6 corrupt senators,7 and a number of demonic individuals and groups.City of8 While many of these clients are rich or powerful, the firm is also known to work some cases '' Pro Bono '', especially when it has a secondary interest in the client.910 The firm also maintains departments of Real Estate,11 Entertainment,12 Science,Home Research and Intelligence,13 and Interment Acquisitions (the firm's term for grave robbery).14 Special Projects In addition to the many legal functions the firm performs, Wolfram & Hart also maintains a Special Projects Division.15 Special Projects is responsible for a wide range of activities, from sponsoring high-profile charity events with the intention of stealing upwards of 95% of the funds raised, Blood Money to hiring assassins to kill individuals deemed threatening to the Senior Partners. Blind Date At the Los Angeles branch, Special Projects devotes a considerable amount of attention to Angel . Prophecies indicate that Angel is destined to play a key role in the Apocalypse, but it is not known which side he will take. The Special Projects division is committed to ensuring Angel will be on their side when the prophecy is fulfilled.Blood Money Among the resources at the division's disposal is a heavily-armed special ops team, which carries out operations such as kidnapping at the firm's behest.16 Human resources Wolfram & Hart is known for its unforgiving treatment of its employees. The firm conducts random sweeps of employees, using Telepaths to find workers who are disloyal to the company. When discovered, these individuals are often executed on the spot. Blind Date It has been reported that the Senior Partners have forced employees to eat their own liver if unhappy with their performance.17 They have also permitted employees to execute and replace their superiors in light of poor performance.18 Every 75 years, the firm conducts a review of its employees. During the Review, a Senior Partner takes corporeal form to punish employees who have shown unfavorable performance. Many employees live in fear of the Review, and in the days preceding it do whatever they can to endear themselves to the Senior Partners, including animal and human sacrifices.Reprise However, departmental heads at Wolfram & Hart can use discretion when dealing with insubordination. If a manager thinks highly enough of an employee, he or she may decide to forego punishment in favor of a second chance.Blind Date Wolfram & Hart's employees often have a "perpetuity clause" in their contracts, meaning they remain with the firm even after their deaths.RepriseHome LOS ANGELES BRANCH The Los Angeles branch of Wolfram & Hart is founded in 1791 over holy ground de- Consecrated through a ritual employing the blood of serial murderer Matthias Pavayne, who is able to survive as a spirit in the building for over 200 years.Hell Bound The branch is notable because it operates in the same city as Angel, who becomes the focus of many W&H projects. In 2003, the Los Angeles branch of Wolfram & Hart is destroyed by The Beast .19 The building is quickly rebuilt, and Angel is offered stewardship of the branch, ostensibly as a reward for preventing world peace.Home In reality, the Senior Partners hope to turn Angel to their side, and keep him from realizing that the firm's apocalypse is already in progress.20 Angel accepts the offer on one condition: in exchange, Wolfram & Hart agrees to alter his son's memories and place him with a loving family.Home The remaining members of Angel Investigations also join Wolfram & Hart, assuming control of various departments.21 Angel struggles with the moral ambiguities of his position as branch manager. While he is able to make some changes to the business, such as purging the staff of the more evil employeesConviction and instituting a zero tolerance policy on killing humans,22 in order to maintain control of the branch, he must keep the business profitable.Conviction This means Angel must keep his clients - many of them evil - happy. After running the branch for months, Angel and the others disrupt the Senior Partners' plans by killing all of the members of the Circle Of The Black Thorn - the Partners' major representatives on Earth - effectively destroying their influence and stalling the plans of the Partners. During a battle between Angel and Liaison to the Senior Partners Marcus Hamilton , the Los Angeles branch collapses.23 White Room Within the Wolfram & Hart solicitor's building, one can enter 'The White Room'. This is an interdimensional space that serves as a "Conduit" to the Senior Partners - it is the most direct line to them, but it requires speaking through an intermediary. The 'Room' is accessed by pressing a certain sequence of buttons on an elevator panel. If conditions are met, the elevator doors open and a blinding light transports the occupants to the White Room.24 When it is first visited by Angel, the room is occupied by a small girlForgiving named Mesektet, the most malevolent member of the Ra-Tet , a family of mystic beings.25 When Angel visits the Room looking for the demon Sahjhan , the girl offers a brief history on the demon.Forgiving When Wolfram & Hart falls under siege by The Beast , Angel and his group find their only refuge in the White Room; they arrive just in time to see The Beast draining the dark energies from Mesektet, killing her. Before her death, she transports the group back to the Hyperion Hotel before The Beast can kill them too.Habeas Corpses When the employees of Angel Investigations are offered positions at Wolfram & Hart, Charles Gunn is taken to the White Room as part of his personalized tour. To his surprise, he is greeted by a black Leopard ;Home the new Conduit's form is determined by the viewer. A Hole in the World During his tenure with Wolfram & Hart, Gunn makes use of the Conduit when he has exhausted all other resources.Hell Bound When Gunn visits in search of a way to save Fred's life, he encounters a mirror image of himself, who viciously beats him for his insolence in using the Room for his own convenience.A Hole in the World OTHER REALMS In addition to its operations on Earth, Wolfram & Hart maintains a presence in a number of other dimensions.26 The region of the extradimensional world of Pylea visited by Angel Investigations is ruled by priests known as the Covenant of Trombli. This group possesses a trio of holy texts emblazoned with a wolf, a ram, and a hart respectively.27 The Covenant has since been overthrown,28 and the full extent of Wolfram & Hart's influence on Pylea or in other dimensions is unknown. PRODUCTION DETAILS Conception
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EXTERNAL LINKS REFERENCES SEE ALSO : Wolfram & Hart Employees : Senior Partners : Circle Of The Black Thorn : Angel Investigations |
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