There was a fairly sizable time gap between those two events, on the order of at least several years. Jimmy moved to Albuquerque as a condition of Chuck helping him with that problem and then worked in the HHM mailroom long enough that he earned his law degree while working there.

I generally agree. I also thought that Paige's statements to Philip about (paraphrasing) Henry knowing what he wants when he talks about boarding school had a subtext of "I'm jealous of him because he doesn't have to deal with the knowledge that I do" and a bit of "don't bring him into this secret and make him have…

They were. I still think there'd be a concern about Alice's "there's a document at a lawyer's office if anything happens to Tim and me" speech. I don't think that the KGB could really be sure whether or not Tim and Alice have that or something akin to it (e.g., a safe deposit box listed in their will, with said…

It is a daily newspaper. The Financial Times is essentially the UK version of the Wall Street Journal.

While I enjoyed the drama of this episode, I agree with you that the ultimate resolution very much calls into question why Jimmy and Kim pursued such an elaborate Rube Goldberg scheme to get there. The resolution still basically boiled down to Jimmy saying "I was lying on the tape to make my brother feel better about…

I have to respectfully disagree, because several of the legal aspects of this show have struck me as borderline absurd and requiring a lot of suspension of disbelief. I don't know enough about state bar hearings to have a strong view one way or the other on this episode, other than to say that it seemed strange for…

What you're describing can be a valid bridge strategy, but it's not the principle of restricted choice.

I took the difficulty of getting a loan previously as some combination of short-term business struggles and that they were trying to get the loan during 2009, which was a very tough time to get financing. There's nothing necessarily illegal about a business desperately seeking a loan but getting turned down by most…

I agree.

Yes, but last season the FBI discovered the bug in Mail Robot.

Saying that we can't criticize Jimmy's behavior with the document alteration because "it makes perfect sense from his perspective" isn't a logical argument. Presumably everything that each character on the show chooses to do makes perfect sense from that character's perspective.

That's a thoughtful response. You and I appear to disagree on how much Jimmy has changed from his Chicago co nman days, but that's personal interpretation, as you say.

My point about the unlikelihood of Mesa Verde hiring solo practitioner Kim was an aside, and I'll agree that I shouldn't have included it. Doing so merely confused the issue.

I didn't recall that line until you mentioned it, but it actually makes a lot of sense. Public place, which means both a measure of safety against unexpected violence and not attracting attention. The natural reaction of anyone who happened to drive by Gus, Mike, and Gus's other guys would be "what the hell is going…

"Entrap" is a word with a very specific legal meaning. Chuck has not done anything to entrap Jimmy with the tape.

Interesting thought. Wouldn't really apply here, though, because Jimmy kicked in a locked door to get into Chuck's house, and that is in fact the most serious charge that Jimmy faces (breaking and entering).

While it's a bit fortuitous, it doesn't strike me as crazy if you're deciding to meet on back roads in New Mexico that you expect to be little traveled. That would mean driving a little ways from the Albuquerque metro area, but I think it's plausible to find those sorts of places within an hour.

No, I'm pretty sure that it's not.

I think that Chantal0007 is correct, and nothing that Chuck's done would be entrapment even if he was a government agent.

Believing that Jimmy is not fit to be an attorney, particularly one dealing with financial matters, does not need to be based on a "magical insight into the future of what [he] might do." It's based on what appears to be a 20+ year track record of what he has done.