Jason Clarke, legal eagle.

Australian actor Jason Clarke (Brotherhood) will join the ensemble of an untitled CBS’ U.S. Attorney drama pilot.

The project revolves around a team of federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan.

Clarke will play the powerful, charismatic section chief who oversees four lawyers and a handful of paralegals in their overlapping cases.

His local credits include Murder Call, Wildside, Home and Away, Blue Heelers, All Saints, Farscape, White Collar Blue and Stingers.

Source: Hollywood Reporter