In flashbacks, Annalise is introduced as a criminal defense teacher at Middleton University who chooses students Laurel Castillo, Michaela Pratt, Connor Walsh, Asher Millstone, and Wes Gibbins to work exclusively in her law firm, where she is assisted by associates Frank Delfino and Bonnie Winterbottom.
If you don't learn anything else from Professor Annalise, though, remember this: As far as we know, she is not based on a real person, especially not Shonda Rhimes (sorry, NY Times). "It doesn't feel autobiographical," Rhimes told USA Today.Sep 25, 2014
Caplan & Gold LLP is a law firm on How to Get Away with Murder. The firm was founded in 1934 and has 38 branches located all over the world, however, it is implied that the law firm is ran from London, England where the managing partner, Emmett Crawford, is usually stationed.
Annalise started her own law firm as a defense attorney which she took on 4 students from her law class which she called the Keating 4. They worked on many of her cases. Annalise put her own law firm aside for a time when she took over the Middleton Criminal Law Clinic.
Clyde Harkness was Mac Harkness's brother, Ophelia Harkness's brother in law and Anna Mae's uncle. He is described as a big man, who loved to smoke and drink. It is revealed that he lived with Annalise when she was a child and sexually abused her. Ophelia found out and started a house fire that killed Clyde.
When Annalise was little, Mac's brother, Clyde Harkness, raped Annalise. He died soon after to what appeared to be an accidental house fire. During Celestine's 13th birthday party, Annalise tried to tell Mac about what Clyde had done to her however, he didn't believe her.
The order was signed off on by Tegan (who was instructed to do so by her bosses), leading Nate Lahey to believe that Tegan poisoned Emmett.
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Nate Sr. is going to be transferred out of prison and Annalise has negotiated a pardon for him. She quits her job at Caplan & Gold in order to work with the governor on a new task force for fair legal defenses.Nov 9, 2018
Christopher Castillo is the biological child of Laurel Castillo and Wes Gibbins. Even though it was originally believed that the baby's father is Wes Gibbins, it was later revealed that Laurel slept with Wes and Frank at the time that her son was conceived.Aug 31, 2018
After getting into contact with Nina, the attorney that Annalise suggested, Soraya calls Bonnie to get Annalise over to speak with her in her office. There, Soraya hands Annalise the divorce papers and custody agreements Raul gave her.