Brad Chase (played by Mark Valley) is a partner at Crane, Poole & Schmidt. He is a straight-laced ex-Marine who finds himself displaced as Denny Crane's protege by Alan Shore. Alan and Brad both used to date Sally Heap, another attorney at CP&S, which inflames Brad's discomfort.

He speaks very fast, the thinking being that if they charge clients by the hour it would be unethical to waste their time. That trait costs him to lose a trial to Donny Crane, the closest person Denny has to an actual son.

Although almost becoming a Navy Seal, defusing a human bomb, accidentally chopping off three fingers of a priest and in any situation trying to be the hero, he feels threatened by men who mock him or women find more attractive than him. Because of that he often talks to female co-workers in a way that gets him into an awkward position. He also very often almost begs the police if he can help with an arrest, being an ex-marine.

He is homophobic and is uncomfortable even saying the word lesbian. He goes round the office under the nicknames "Ken doll" and "Buzz Lightyear", the latter of which he embraces by wearing a Buzz costume at a party.

During one of his awkward talks to a co-worker Denise Bauer he says that even though he can get a different girl evey night because he was a marine, is a lawyer and is good-looking they tend to leave because he is the world's worst kisser. After she offers to teach him through practical demonstration, he improves drastically, so she offers him to be her friend with benefits. They later get pregnant and after he convinces her that he needs to wear his marine uniform at the wedding they also get married. He later becomes an assistant district attorney and remains on fairly good terms with his former co-workers.