Maxine "Max" Felice Shaw was a strong-willed, brazen, "ride the maverick" attorney for top law firm, Evans, Bell & Associates.
Teri Joseph graduated from Northwestern University School of Law and became a labor attorney with the prestigious Chicago law firm, Greene, Norris & Associates.
Clair Olivia Huxtable was a very eloquent, elegant, playful, sometimes silly, yet very assertive and articulate lawyer wife of Dr. Heathcliff "Cliff" Huxtable. She became a partner in her law firm and as an attorney she helped her family with legal issues.
No one, and I repeat NO ONE comes close to the fierceness of Queen Nicole Ari Parker-Kudjoe. 
That and "Soul Food" was actually a legitimately good show.