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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
No, of course not.
He has no particular loyalty to Jimmy and I've never argued otherwise. I simply disagree with this narrative that he goes out of his way to sabotage him.
Chuck will always put his firm ahead of Jimmy and frankly he'll put most things ahead of Jimmy. But he won't do that because he actively wants Jimmy to fail - he'll do that because he doesn't really give a shit one way or the other if Jimmy succeeds.
He simply has a very detached relationship with Jimmy and a very jaundiced outlook on him. My point all along has been that both of those things are relatively reasonable outcomes of his shared history with his lifelong screwup of a little brother.
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I'm with you on most of it, but he showed in the first season that he definitely actively wants Jimmy to not be a lawyer. When he got his degree, he would have been a first year, and at that point posed no threat to the company.
But yeah, he'd be a shit partner if he didn't at least coach Howard on how to get the client back.