Leela

methodical legally meticulous composed assertive institutionally risk‑averse

Leela serves as a staff attorney in the White House Counsel’s Office charged with policing legal and ethical compliance for senior staff. She pursues anomalous financial behavior with procedural precision, parsing transaction timing and market movement to assess institutional risk. Comfortable converting political problems into legal triage, she escalates suspected irregularities toward counsel leadership and frames unexplained windfalls as potential federal crimes. Her interventions force communications and political staff to confront liability even amid partisan victories, prioritizing legal accountability over political convenience.

2 appearances

Also known as: LEELA

Leela's Journey

A timeline through the narrative

2 moments

S1E4 · Five Votes Down

Leela Forces Toby to Confront a Suspicious Stock Windfall

Controlled, authoritative, and quietly urgent — professional concern with an undercurrent of impatience.

Leela methodically questions Toby, frames the timing of the market jump, and explicitly warns that the Counsel will investigate; she holds the legal framing of the scene and shifts the …

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S1E4 · Five Votes Down

Carol Interrupts — Five Votes Recovered

Calmly authoritative; controlled concern that treats the situation as a legal problem requiring escalation rather than a political inconvenience to be smoothed over.

Leela presses precise, documented points about the anomalous stock movement, then receives the vote news but immediately reframes the room's priorities toward a formal investigation; her tone is clinical and …

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