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Nekko

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  1. I can't speak for the show generally, but having met the lawyer, I'd say he's a legit "genius" in terms of IQ. Not sure what the conversion would be, but as described in the show he did have a perfect score on the SAT, and I believe he got a perfect score on the LSAT, and he did very well at both schools (undergrad/law) he went. This might not mean genius as compared to Einstein, but genius as generally understood in connection with IQ.
  2. It's possible his daughter is a beneficiary to some sort of Marshall life insurance policy to those killed in the line of duty. He's in trouble now but if he were killed, it wouldn't be a stretch to think that any prosecution would go away and they'd let the money go.
  3. Hamlin could be doing it out of a sense of obligation or he just might be the designated heavy at the firm and him being a jerk is part of his schtick. Chuck could credibly threaten to leave the firm. Not sure any other firm would hire him, but with the amounts Jimmy was saying his share was worth, he could comfortably afford to live in his electricity free house and pay someone to collect his newspapers and do his shopping. I mean, even with hiring someone to help you do errands, $17 million can go a long way if your only other expenses are food, water, taxes, and newspaper subscriptions.
  4. Chuck has reason to not trust Jimmy based on the years (decades?) of experience with Slipping Jimmy. The events described show that Chuck's continued mistrust is justified. Whether or not Chuck knows that recent events confirm his mistrust doesn't seem relevant. If he knows (and he knows about the twins' medical bills and the billboard), then he has more reason to not trust Jimmy, if he doesn't know then he still has reason to mistrust Jimmy, the events just confirm for the audience that Chuck's mistrust is valid. My only experience with involuntary commitments is in the pro bono context, for a 72 hour commitment, I can see the doctor plus police plus Jimmy being enough, for the type of involuntary commitment at issue (the type that would allow Jimmy to be Chuck's guardian), at least in California I think it'd be a really tough sell, especially with his ongoing income from HHM and general coherence. [edit] Re bringing in HHM, yeah, it didn't have to be HHM, just they needed to bring in some big firm with the resources to take this type of case to the end. Although, I think Chuck might have some legal obligation to bring it into HHM as a partner of the firm and the value of the case. I mean it's kind of an issue for him to purposely push business that HHM would want away from the firm.
  5. Why is it important to know whether or not Chuck knew about these actions? Chuck believes Jimmy will always be Slipping Jimmy based on his decades of experience having to bail out/deal with Slipping Jimmy. I root for Jimmy because I know he's really been trying to do the right thing. But it's really hard to say Chuck is wrong to disregard his prior experience with Jimmy given that we know Jimmy has been doing exactly what Chuck has been worried about. Also, beyond his prior experience with Jimmy, Chuck has reason to suspect that Jimmy is not on the level given that he saw the medical bill for the twins and the news article re the billboard. Don't get me wrong, Chuck is really elitist, handled things in a terrible way, and really has failed to acknowledge how hard Jimmy is trying, but in the same way Mike knew Jimmy would spill the coffee, it's hard for me to criticize Chuck for knowing Jimmy will do exactly the type of things that he's done. I think we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one, Also, looking up New Mexico, it has like a 91 percent bar passage rate, really makes it hard for me to believe it's particularly rigorous. I just have a really hard time believing that would be enough given the worst offense Chuck did was steal a newspaper. Unless judges in New Mexico are really lax about it, involuntarily commitment is a pretty big deal and I don't think they showed enough to get it. They do just want to see results, but they also care about covering themselves. What happens if they don't get results? If you're the GC or officer of a company doing hiring, how do you justify losing a case that you gave to the guy who went to American Samoa? We know Jimmy's good (if ethically challenged) but let's face it, seeing the American Samoa diploma on the wall isn't reassuring (I mean that's part of the joke in Breaking Bad). In terms of HHM, the American Samoa thing would be even more of an issue. Lawyers care about where you went to law school for a ridiculous amount of time after you went to law school and even the most non-elitist lawyer is going to raise an eyebrow at American Samoa.
  6. I meant no offense to Georgetown Law, it's a really great law school/Law Center...I mean not as good as my law school but anyway, just trying to clarify. [edit] A lot of firms do have people who are on the edge, but Jimmy, even in his trying to do good form, isn't skating on the edge. His actions are flatout criminal. I sympathize with him and think he's actually a really good lawyer, but his lapses are pretty huge.
  7. Chuck was definitely duplicitous and should have treated Jimmy a lot better but perhaps due to my contrarian nature I think Chuck's feelings, if not his actions, are defensible. Chuck is largely right that Jimmy is still Slipping Jimmy. He's trying to be good, but when faced with obstacles, it doesn't take that much to push him back into old habits. He could've just let the Kettelman's go instead of hiring the twins, he could've just refused the money and reported the whereabouts of the Kettelman's instead of taking the money, pouring the coffee on the detective, and the billboard "accident" (I think they made it pretty clear that it was a setup). Now some argue that this is because Chuck has been blocking him, but not getting a job a what is presumably one of the leading law firms in New Mexico doesn't justify what are pretty big ethical lapses that would get you disbarred or at least suspended. Separately, Chuck's reasons for why they needed to bring the case to HHC were absolutely correct. There's no way they could handle a case that size by themselves. Jimmy didn't even have the resources to do basic legal research. Some states are supposed to be pretty easy, not sure if NM is one of them. What often makes the bar exam hard is that it often covers things you never dealt with in law school or don't deal with on a regular basis. Also it's hard because of the pressure you put on yourself because you don't know how good is good enough and the ramifications of failure are pretty large. But a prep course with a month or two of hard core studying and I think a lot people could pass most bar exams with no law school experience if they were generally smart. Probably not anymore given his current state and even at the time I think it would've been difficult since the bar to have someone involuntarily committed is pretty high. Probably depends on how legally sophisticated the clients are. Law is a notoriously snobby profession so if it's a company general counsel doing the hiring, it's something that will be a factor. If you have a big reputation, it's not a big deal if you didn't go to Harvard, but American Samoa would be a hard sell under almost any circumstances. Also, I see people saying Chuck went to Harvard/an Ivy League school, didn't they indicate that he went to Georgetown?
  8. Even if it is to his personal number that ultimately gets billed to Chuck, that would still seem to give Chuck a claim to the case and by extension HHM (I have a hard time believing any HHM partnership agreement would allow for a multi-million dollar class action case outside the partnership).
  9. In Chuck's defense, how many chances has he given Jimmy? At the point where he starts working at HHM, Jimmy might've gone through 20 years worth of "real chances." I think Chuck would have a claim that it is at least partially his case as well given his initial review of the documents, legal analysis, and research (including the use of HHM's resources).
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