I'm not sure if "ratting" exists, but I paused the ep to go stick a Post-It over my web cam.

I completely agree w/you. Alicia has picked all the wrong partners for her new firm, but I think the idea was that she was her own woman now, a bit condescending, yes?. The writers are screwing up at every turn they take in trying to make this realistic. There are many female lawyers in my family and they all know…

I'd like to hear a lawyer chime in on your question #1. As a practical matter, I have worked with tons of lawyers who split and formed their own firms, so my guess is non-compete agreements don't apply or are very limited. A law firm does not own its clients. If you don't own them, nobody can steal them. *ahem*…

That's true. Cary is the most one-dimensional supporting actor on the show. I've never figured out if it was the actor's or the writers' fault. But he seems to have one expression, quizzical.

Will is boring me right now. Delusions of grandeur. Bimbo GF of three nights (so he was involved with her before things hit the fan). Unethical behavior to a client. Middle-aged guy who is so *energized* by a much-younger woman who even he calls crazy that he stages a totally inappropriate face-sucking display in…

They had to defend Diane's claim of poaching clients in front of a judge and they had every right to do so. The client showed up at Alicia's apartment after "some guy in your old office threw me out." Sure, Diane looked hurt. She should have. Her firm (still her firm, AFAIK, she hasn't signed the exit package)…

I thought she had been sleeping in her make up, which would have ruined those pillow cases pdq.

I just wanted to sleep in her bed. Alone! That looked comfortable.

I loved seeing David Lee getting smacked up the head (not physically) so many times this episode. He's so divinely obnoxious.

Word! Honestly, that aspect of the ep felt like something from a soap opera. I said this last week, I repeat: Will has *always* been aggressive and ambitious, but he runs a smallish law firm in Chi with a recent history of bankruptcy, and just (the day before) lost key employees and important clients. So from this…

I'd like to make comment #530. CBS, don't fuck with TGW. You have a winner here.

I have a technical question. Remember when Alicia calls Zach and asks him if he can download stuff from her cloud at the firm to her personal cloud? I laughed when Zach said, Mom, you don't even know what those words mean. I was in the same boat!

"Will saying whatever he did seemed more like that, a spur of the moment thing."

David: Let's go [at it] right now, you little piece [redacted: of shit].

This is normal when you leave a law firm. You want to take the clients you regard as yours (you've spent many more hours working for them than a partner did). The clients, if you have done a great job, want to move over. There is no thievery involved. It's the client's decision. Law firms don't own their clients. …

Yes, he's working for Peter in the Governor-elect's office as Chief of Staff (and did some major eye-rolling this episode). I don't remember how they covered his exit. I'm a bit troubled when Eli is the moral compass for Peter!

My take was that the pregnant student couldn't be sued for any amount of dollars. She was broke and bullet-proof when it comes to a million-dollar lawsuit. The parents were suing to try to avoid the pain of being parents to a child that would die.

I'll be sad when it's over too. A great show. It's faded into mediocrity in the last season. And I didn't think, with respect, that re-shooting the scenes was inventive. I thought it was lazy writing.

In this week's episode and last week's, the writers have been coasting on the great cast at their hands. The cases were poor - in last week's, there is no way any judge could force a healthy young woman to have an abortion; in this week's, as has been mentioned frequently in the comments, the whole "hostile…

I can't believe this episode received a rating of A-. The writers, not unlike Jason Segel, have been phoning it in for the last season. I haven't been watching this series for the last 8+ years; I got into it via binge-watching the first six seasons on Amazon. The early seasons were so much funnier and better. This…