Rachel Zane is a longtime and quite sexy paralegal working at Pearson Darby Specter in New York City. She is highly intelligent, rather forceful and unafraid to use her power she exerts over men to her advantage. That said, she is far from just eye candy, proving to be an invaluable member of the firm's legal team.Rachel's father is Robert Zane, a well-known lawyer whose name is part of the firm Rand, Calder and Zane. As a result, she is constantly trying to live to expectations imposed on her by others in the not-so-big world of law. This pressure is exacerbated when Rachel, despite her obvious intelligence and because she is a poor test taker, fails to achieve the LSAT score needed for Harvard Law. Thus, her paralegal duties.After a few disappointing experiences, Rachel opts not to date her coworkers, a policy that might have to reevaluated after the arrival of wunderkind Mike Ross, associate to partner Harvey Specter.