As a result, Pearson Specter Litt was unable to keep their name and Jessica informed Harvey that it was time for her partnership to be bought out and for the firm to be renamed as a result. After Harvey bested Andrew Malik, Malik had the Ethics Committee of the New York State Bar disbar Jessica's license, preventing her from practicing law in New York. She was soon contacted by Thomas Bratton for help taking down Pearson Specter Litt, which she provided as she believed Harvey Specter and Louis Litt would only put their differences aside to unite together if the firm was under attack. However, when it became clear that Harvey would leave the firm before firing Mike, Jessica chose instead to allow Mike to stay, realizing that she would need the support of both Harvey and Mike if she was to win the fight against Daniel.Īfter Jessica moved to Chicago, she took strictly pro bono cases for a while until eventually handling a police brutality case against the mayor's office, exacting a $4 million settlement. After she discovered the truth about Mike Ross, she chose to let Harvey be the one to fire him. Armed with this knowledge, Jessica and Harvey force Daniel out of the firm, and Jessica becomes the leader of the firm.Īfter Daniel Hardman returned to Pearson Hardman with the intention of reclaiming his position as managing partner, Jessica had to fight for her firm. Jessica believed Daniel but not Harvey, who found proof that Daniel was having an affair. He said this it was for his wife, who was just diagnosed with cancer. After it was revealed that the thief was Daniel himself, she approached him, asking why was he stealing the firm's money. She sends Harvey to investigate, promising him partnership if he succeeds. In 2007, Jessica notices that someone had been stealing from the firm by looking at the firm's books. The takeover was supposedly very fast and took the name partners by surprise, as described by Harvey Specter. Shortly before Harvey joined the firm, Daniel Hardman and Jessica, led a successful coup against the name partners, creating Pearson Hardman. By 2003, Jessica was a senior partner of Gordon Schmidt Van Dyke. Jessica had received a full scholarship to Vassar, and then went on to Harvard for three years, before becoming to the first black woman to work as a judicial clerk at the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. However, that was the car that she used to get to school. She and her father had a falling out as he disapproved of her decision to become a lawyer than a surgeon her mother Virginia had given her a car as a gift, which Jessica hated. When she was 16, her parents had split up, due to her father Alan, who was a surgeon, prioritizing saving the lives of patients over his family. After working with Rachel Zane on a case, Jessica realizes she forgot why she became a lawyer in the first place and steps down, leaving the firm to Harvey and Louis, with the former taking over as managing partner. Mike, Harvey and Jessica eventually evict Darby, and the firm undergoes a name change once more by becoming Pearson Specter, and again to Pearson Specter Litt when Louis Litt discovers Mike Ross' secret and leverages himself to be name partner. With their financial funds being depleted after Hardman allies with the firm's enemies, Jessica merges with Darby International to form Pearson Darby, which becomes Pearson Darby Specter when Jessica promotes Harvey to name partner. With the help of Mike Ross, Hardman is ousted for a second time and Jessica is able to regain her title. Jessica then became the firm's new managing partner and Harvey was promoted to junior partner, and the firm flourished.įive years later, Hardman returns after his wife passes away, and successfully regains his former position as managing partner. However, when Jessica discovered that Hardman was stealing money from the firm and its clients in order to fund an extramarital affair, Jessica and her associate Harvey Specter blackmailed him into resigning from the firm, with the public story being that Hardman stepped down of his volition to take care of his wife, who had cancer. She made her way up the firm's ranks and, after becoming a senior partner, conspired with Daniel Hardman to oust the three partners and restructure the firm as Pearson Hardman, with Hardman taking over the reins as managing partner. She began to her legal career after being hired by Charles Van Dyke, one of the three name partners at Gordon Schmidt Van Dyke, due to the fact that she was black and female and the firm wished to fulfill a diversity quota. is the former managing partner of Pearson Specter Litt and current aide to the mayor of Chicago. The Fixer GALLERY (649) " I spent years doing nothing but making money and fighting to keep my name up on a wall.
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