Kalinda Sharma is the investigator at Stern, Lockhart & Gardner. She is unflappable, inscrutable and fiercely private. She is exceptionally good at her job, although her tactics are not always strictly legal. She is often the key to the firm winning whatever case they are working on, usually at the 11th hour. She generally does not work well with others. She often wears leather and knee-high boots.Although Kalinda doesn't let many people close to her, she becomes friends with Alicia Florrick, with the aid of tequila shots. She feels protective of Alicia. Kalinda is incredibly sought after professionally and often uses this to her advantage in salary negotiations at work.Background: She is bisexual and has a series of relationships, mostly with women and often because they can help her with a case. Otherwise very little is known about her when the series begins, but she is incredibly secretive about her past.