Perhaps, but if he pulls a Duddy Kravitz on her, she’ll be gone.
Maybe one of the last scenes of the season is Chuck and Hector in adjacent ICU beds…
But there are also a lot of people who get injured and legitimately deserve compensation.
There’s a billboard when you enter my city with a lawyer’s name and picture and declaring him our region’s “injury lawyer”. Below it is his wife’s billboard for her realty business. I know her a bit and don’t love her, but their family is prominent in Democratic politics and generally well regarded, I think.
Wasn’t it the guy Mike saw dispatched by Hector through the binoculars?
No, it’s the “Good Samaritan” who helped the truck driver. Nacho told Mike that Hector shot him in the face. Mike is after hector because Hector killed an innocent civilian.
ETA: the guy in the binoculars was the truck driver.
I’m not saying that there aren’t. I’m just hypothesizing that Saul’s clients may not all fit that category.
That was the driver of the hijacked truck, IIRC.
But Kim would not necessarily know that. And even if she did, it’s not unethical for Jimmy to represent them unless he suborns perjury or manufactures evidence. Actually, he already told her about doing the latter (the squat cobbler video) and she got uncomfortable but told him only to not tell her about it the next time.
Actually, while Saul was obviously practicing (so wasn’t disbarred or suspended or anything like that), sleazeball lawyers often aren’t in good standing with their peers in the legal profession. I don’t think people from more upstanding firms would want to have dinner with him or invite him to events. And banks and other respectable institutions wouldn’t want to hire him, Kim definitely couldn’t keep her clientele if she was sharing an office with Saul Goodman from Breaking bad.
I think it’s quite likely that Jimmy pushes Kim away before he goes full Saul Goodman. We’ve seen him do a lot of things that really bother her, and she’s clearly getting more and more disturbed. Working out of a nail salon as a broke public defender doesn’t involve any moral issues, and she like the transgression of scamming a jerk out of an expensive bar tab. But she really has a problem with things like faking evidence to the police (pie video), scamming a guy out of $5000 (watch her face when he talks about it), doing slip and fall scams (she’s going to figure that out if he keeps doing them), destroying Chuck (see her outburst at MV), and forging documents to get her the MV account in the first place. (I know some people insist that somehow she doesn’t know he did it, but FFS she told him that if he did it he should go to the copy place and close up loose ends, and he jumped in the car right away). It’s one thing for her to be close to Jimmy the unsuccessful lawyer, or Jimmy the Elder law guy who occasionally does questionable things for good reasons, but the full on Saul Goodman running on pure sleaze and ignoring ethics is another thing entirely.
No, that was the driver who worked for the Cartel. Mike left him alive, and Hector believed that him being left alive meant he was in on the robbery.
Maybe not all, but some definitely are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPd67CEL54E&index=1&list=PLw2w9PIWLB8bQBW8rZiyDQ_dQkQpAdlb0
Yet she stayed with Jimmy through all of it. Other than Chuck, which she feels personally guilty about, in all other cases her concerns have been primarily about exposure to legal risks, not about fundamental personal principles. She has told him to leave her in the dark, like a mob wife, not to straighten up and fly right for its own sake.
You’re still not understanding/acknowledging the distinction Kim would make (even if normal people who are not lawyers would not) between surmising something, being virtually certain of it, and KNOWING it in a way that implicates her in legal hot water if it becomes a proven fact in a court of law.
ETA: Are you being very loose in your plot summary, or do you actually have a false memory of her saying something specific about the copy place?
I think you’re way off on this. Kim would not associate with Saul from BB. His commercials in BB were crazy and screamed Ambulance Chaser, but she hasn’t seen those. She’s seen and really liked his Gimme Jimmy commercial for his elder law practice, which she really admired. And his previous work as a public defender can also be seen in a noble light.
I suppose she sees “squat cobbler” as noble also? :dubious:
Pretty much a “holding pattern” episode. Not a bad one, but two things niggled me a bit:
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Like most people I found the Supervisor caving like that to be pretty unbelievable.
The thing is, even if Jimmy is right, the guy doesn’t know he’s right, and people don’t generally let themselves get pushed around by threats they don’t understand.
It’s not like letting them go is risk-free. That could get him in trouble. -
I don’t like the music store guys, and hopefully that’s the last we see of them. I don’t mean the fact they were stiffing Jimmy, I mean their acting.
It feels like an old-fashioned sitcom while they’re onscreen.
Are they members of the production crew or something?
They are a semi-famous comedy duo. I wasn’t crazy about them either, but on the BCS podcast Vince Gilligan raved about what a casting coup it was.
Kind of like squat cobbler/K-Strass/yo yo master.
But I love squat cobbler. He’s a comedy character for sure but somehow completely believable / relatable.
I don’t want to say the Sklar brothers are all that bad, they’re just doing a different kind of acting. An old-fashioned sitcom like I say, or maybe improv.
I agree with you about squat cobbler. The twins, I don’t see as being broad in a sitcommy or improv way–more just that they are blah. Certainly not on cobbler’s level.
Just feel like tossing in this anecdote. My job involves hearing disability claims. There was one atty (who had previously been disbarred) who drove his clients to their hearings. It was commonly understood that his trunk was full of canes, walkers, braces that hs clients would bring/wear into their hearings. Guy was a total sleasebag - would blatantly lie to your face.
He was the most extreme example I encountered, but was by no means unique.
I agree with the folk who say reputable attys (presumably Kim) would choose not to associate with such attys. But just offering my personal observation that disreputable attys such as Saul are not at all fictional. My impression is that such characters generally don’t care what their colleagues think about them (so long as they retain their licenses.) The most common reasons I’ve seen for suspensions have been misuse of client funds. I.e., not being sleazy, but stealing from their clients. In my state, it takes A LOT for an atty to get disciplined.
As I’ve stated before and you continue to ignore (maybe you have false memories?) I am using “know” in the normal sense of the word “know”, and not some weirdly specific definition that you seem to think lawyers use but can provide no evidence of. Someone even linked a definition of ‘know’ and I said that yes, that’s the definition I’m using. The whole thing about ‘implicates her in legal hot water’ is something you tacked on, and has nothing to do with whether she knows it’s true or not.
S2E9 37:30-40:30 is the scene, around 39:30 is where she says:
“Your brother is one smart lawyer.
He’d make quite an adversary.
The kind of adversary who’d find even the smallest crack in your defense.
Going against him, you’d really want to make sure you’ve got all your i’s dotted, and your t’s crossed.
Nothing for him to find.”
And then Jimmy pops out of bed and goes to the copy place, then Chuck goes and falls, and Jimmy gets him to the hospital. But I’m sure that in your mind, the fact that she told him to dot his 'i’s and cross his 't’s and that he immediately went to the copy place is purely coincidence, and she would not infer that Jimmy had altered any documents by that sequence of events, that maybe Jimmy started a habit of late-night copy-shop visits that also happen to be ones that Chuck braves electricity to go to. Kim isn’t that stupid though, she clearly knows (standard definition) what’s going on.
Interesting fact relevant to the older conversation about Kim overworking herself: Kim has been interviewing paralegals since she got the Mesa Verde case, she mentions that she is interviewing paralegals before telling Jimmy to cover his tracks. So she has been looking at getting more help all along, she’s just taking a lot of time with it. I wonder if she’ll end up blaming the time she spent on Jimmy’s case for not hiring help if something blows up later on.