Benjamin Leighton "Ben" Matlock is a renowned, folksy yet cantankerous defense attorney who charges a fee of $100,000 to take a case.
She assists her father at his law practice in Atlanta for a short time, appearing only in the first season of the series.
Purl replaced Lori Lethin[1] who appeared as Charlene in the pilot "Diary of a Perfect Murder".
After divorcing her husband, of whom her father did not much approve, she moves back to Atlanta to help him with his legal practice.
The two lawyers soon become friends, though their relationship is never really defined much further than that, and upon Julie's return in the season nine episode "The Confession", she reveals that she has feelings for him.
She is an intelligent, highly capable lawyer who often works with Ben on his cases, and who occasionally acts as the primary attorney.
She is soft-spoken and beautiful, sometimes using her charm and good looks to convince witnesses and suspects to give her the information she needs to crack a case.
Her sharp intelligence is best illustrated in an episode called The Game Show; she goes undercover as a contestant to investigate a murder, and reveals to Ben and Conrad that she is a polymath, being able to answer nearly every question correctly.
Cassie worked as a typist and secretary for Ben, usually typing legal documents and sending them to the courthouse.
Geraldine Margaret "Jerri" Stone is an assistant who works for Ben Matlock in the final season.
It is a Victoria Edwards recipe: chili with chicken, peanut butter sauce, and a few secret ingredients.
He either works with or has dates with several women: In "The Star", while getting goosebumps, Conrad hid himself at the front door and accidentally scared Catherine's daughter, Susan McKay.
In "The Secret", when Matlock sends him to Chicago to talk to Sherry Brown in questioning her about the negatives he is supposed to find, he receives word that she died from jumping off the apartment building.
He asked Michelle Thomas to become a contestant; she refused, but literally changed her mind when she met the eligibility requirements.
Anne was found innocent of her ex-boyfriend's murder, and the culprit was Lorraine Ortega (aka Sissy Lockwood), a bartender, who was also a fugitive from Texas; she gave Dwayne all that money, and later used the stun gun to kill him when she entered the apartment on the same day.
Cliff is the son of Billy Lewis, Matlock's high-school girlfriend's brother, whom he had known back in Mt.