Sun-kissed and patrician, Howard Hamlin is one of life's winners. Chuck's law partner in the wildly successful firm Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill, Howard's good looks, charm and success are only part of the reason Jimmy can't stand him. To Howard, the forbidding steel and glass encased home of HHM is a three-dimensional chess board and his associates are pawns to be deployed or re-positioned based on case needs, or as rewards or punishments. His decisions are not to be questioned, and he fears no one, except Chuck McGill.