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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
If Jimmy's character were as poor as Chuck claimed, Chuck isn't in his home, and Chuck knows that.
Like an abusive partner, he's destroying someone's self-esteem to the point where they act in a manner that validates that low perception of their worth.
Jimmy isn't demanding to sidle up to Hamlin on the billboard. He doesn't want the franchise, he wants a spot on the team, and he's certainly earned that.
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More very long stuff, but in luke-warm defense of HHM:
Spoiler!
In defense of HHM, as they've been portrayed, they're about as silk-stocking as a law firm gets. They appear to have about a 100K square foot campus. They look to have a 100 strong roster of attorneys.
These guys have that Sidley Austin look about them - starting salaries for associates at 150K; first year associates as pick of the litter law clerks and law review/class rank studs - shit like that.
If that's the case, they can go to the best law schools in the region and pluck the 3 best guys from the 3 best schools, pit them up against each other and probably take their pick. They can hire truly exceptional attorneys.
Saul appears like he's probably a better attorney than his image, but he's also not such a good attorney that he'd have ever seen the RICO case coming. He'd have never sought class certification. The kinds of attorneys that HHM can turn away, let alone hire, absolutely could have done that.
It's the fear of every partner in every firm when they have another member that has a kid in law school - Jesus lord, please don't let him be an idiot. They know the odds favor them having to hire the guy, good bad or indifferent. And when that happens, it's not generally a positive development.
I actually don't fault HHM here. And really, even Chuck had solid grounds for what he did. But the way he did it and how he finally articulated why he did it was shit.
The bottom line is that HHM did what virtually any firm in their shoes would have done in the same situation had Jimmy come in off the street with that case, no ties to the firm and an online degree. Hell, the offer they made him was actually
better than I expected (20% of the common fund isn't ****ing around).
The leap that I can't quite make here is that a litigator as presumably articulate and honed as Chuck wouldn't have been able to give his justification there in a manner that wasn't so scorched earth. It seems to me that he just got caught flat-footed and flustered as hell.
In either event - still damn good television and great work by all the actors involved. Really outstanding show.