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Zane Specter Litt (also known as ZSL) was a major law firm headquartered in New York, formed after Robert Zane left Rand, Kaldor & Zane to join Specter Litt. The firm was shortly renamed as Zane Specter Litt Wheeler Williams following Samantha Wheeler and Alex Williams' promotions to name partner as Louis Litt became managing partner.
History[]
- "We're all still gonna be here, and win or lose, it's gonna be on you to keep the peace. [...] Because this is still more your firm than his, and everybody knows it."
- ―Donna Paulsen to Harvey Specter
Season 7[]
In "Tiny Violin", Stanley Gordon returns to his profession as an attorney to represent the former Pearson Specter Litt senior partners who fled the firm after Mike Ross' guilty plea. Having discovered that Jessica Pearson's partnership had been bought out, the former senior partners officially file a lawsuit against Specter Litt to have their partnerships bought out as well.
Harvey Specter and Louis Litt attempt to dismiss the lawsuit by claiming that the senior partners, whose basis for their claim is that working for Pearson Specter Litt damaged their careers, is untrue. However, Gordon notifies them of a testimony by former Pearson Specter attorney Dana Scott in which she claims working at Pearson Specter negatively affected her career.
Gordon informs Harvey and Louis that the former PSL senior partners are willing to withdraw their lawsuit under the condition that they get hired back into the firm, and even stipulates that an addition to the fine print would be made to prevent the partners from hiring him at Specter Litt.
Later on, Donna informs them that Rand, Kaldor & Zane is expanding by leasing three additional floors in their current building, the same amount of floors that Specter Litt currently uses. Louis realizes that the former PSL partners, who are now employed at RKZ, could vote Harvey and himself out of power and sell the firm to RKZ, thereby eliminating Specter Litt. Harvey, who had gone to Robert Zane earlier for help, accuses Robert of backstabbing him, although Robert is shocked at his firm's plans, revealing that he had no part in it and that his fellow name partners, Ellen Rand and Eric Kaldor, are behind the coup and are planning to oust him in the process.
After a drawn out feud with Gordon, Mike Ross helps Louis with the suit proposing the idea of Robert leaving Rand Kaldor to join Harvey and Louis, in doing so Robert would bring enough people to outvote the partners selling the firm to Eric and Ellen. Despite initially refusing the idea, Robert leaves Rand, Kaldor & Zane to join Specter Litt, creating a new firm in the process. By joining the firm, Robert brings his loyal associates and partners to the firm, therefore preventing Stanley Gordon, Ellen Rand and Eric Kaldor's plans to eliminate Specter Litt.Louis Litt hires back the senior partners who fled Pearson Specter Litt following Mike's conviction in exchange for them dropping their lawsuit against the firm.
Season 8[]
In "Right Hand Man" Harvey, Robert and Louis sit down to discuss major conflicts. Louis informs them that two of their clients have a conflict of interest; Harvey and Robert declare that whoever can get their respective clients to drop the conflicting division would become managing partner, although both secretly conspire to have the other's division dropped.
Robert enlists the aid of his right-hand man, Samantha Wheeler, to have Harvey's client drop their division. With Mike gone, Harvey uses Alex Williams as his proxy, informing Alex that if he wants him to deliver on his promise of being the firm's next name partner, he would do his best to defeat Samantha. Fearful that Alex may lose, Harvey intervenes, and while he wins, he ends up proving to the firm that he is not management material.
Samantha reminds Robert that he had promised her to make her name partner, and he reassures her that she would be the firm's next name partner. However, she adds that the promotion is to happen before the end of the year. Harvey steps down as managing partner and relinquishes the role to Robert, and asks for his old office back.
In "Pecking Order" Harvey clashes with Samantha over the handling of a case concerning Max Louden and Nick Turner, former clients of Mike Ross.
In "Promises, Promises" Harvey encounters Anna Reed, a cleaning lady at the firm's building. Anna has been working overtime in order to pay for her mother's medical bills but is denied her overtime due to her managerial title, and thus asks Harvey to help her, prompting Harvey to butt heads with David Fox. After Fox retaliates by firing Anna and disabling the building's elevators, thus affecting the firm, Harvey gives Donna Paulsen carte blanche to solve the issue. Donna offers David a year's worth of free legal representation as Harvey's client if he rehires Anna, pays the workers their overtime and restores the building's facilities, and David accepts.
Several other firm antics ensue including Alex Williams aiding Robert with a personal legal matter and Samantha picking a fight with Eric Kaldor.
In "Motion to Delay" Tommy Bratton, a former name partner at Bratton Gould sues the firm for $20 million claiming that Harvey and Robert conspired with each other during the Masterson/Reform Corp case, also alleging that they promised Frank Gallo money in exchange for fabricated testimony that they used to leverage him.
After a few failed attempts to get Bratton and even Eli Gould to drop the case, it's discovered that Tommy was willing to risk prison because he has terminal cancer and was given a year to live, Harvey tells Tommy their strategy will be to delay the trial until his passing. Though Tommy remains unfazed by Harvey's threats, saying that him coming here has given Bratton two years to live on hate alone.
Eventually however, Tommy dies of a heart attack and Gould drops the case.
In "Managing Partner" Alex and Samantha go head to head in court after Harvey and Robert agree to let the two fight it out with the winner getting their name up on the wall next. Despite Alex winning, Robert decides to put Samantha's name up instead. This fighting is stopped by Donna who manages to convince Louis to step up as Managing Partner, and his first order of business is putting Alex and Samantha's names up on the wall at the same time, thus renaming the firm "Zane Specter Litt Wheeler Williams".
Known Members[]
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The firm's name wall
Senior Partners[]
- Robert Zane (name partner, managing partner)
- Harvey Specter (name partner)
- Louis Litt (name partner)
- Alex Williams
- Samantha Wheeler
- Katrina Bennett
- Paul Porter