Nathan Minter (56) - famed civil rights attorney; a "do gooder" yet inadvertently places his career above family obligations;
Morris Minter (79) - Nathan's father; European Jewish immigrant inflection; widower who copes with loneliness by urinating on public bushes, returning used lamb chops to grocery meat counters, and angering big-wigs
Marc Minter (early 30s) - Nathan's son; corporate lawyer who went to Yale