Cary Agos is a young lawyer who begins as a first year associate at Stern, Lockhart & Gardner with Alicia Florrick. He is often placed in a rivalry position with her and sometimes resents her for this and her political connections thanks to her husband, Peter Florrick, the disgraced State's Attorney.His own career trajectory takes many twists and turns, often because of bad luck, but Cary maintains his integrity and loyalty to individual relationships he has formed. He seems to have a crush on Kalinda Sharma, the firm's investigator.Background: Graduated from Harvard University. He has a very difficult and distant relationship with his father, Jeffrey Agos, a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., who doesn't ever seem to think Cary is good enough.