I don't know, I thought that was a reasonable concern? In a firm of that size partners are billing their time at over $300 an hour. So that's either $300/hr extra billed to a client (in which case they'd have to explain that it's because they are paying for a babysitter for their lawyer who is insane), or they just…

Absolutely.

Well it wouldn't be a Gilligan show if it didn't! lol

It depends on what the specific charge was (I don't remember), but in general the bar can only ding you for crimes that are felonies or are crimes of dishonesty.

Oh definitely agree. Howard would honor the contract because he is an ethical and responsible person.

Verbal contracts are contracts. They work the same way written contracts work. There are certain varieties of contract that require some action on the part of one of the parties for the contract to be considered accepted, but this isn't one of them. Chuck offered to sell his share of the partnership for the agreed…

Is this something we really need to explore again?

Hm, I always took Kim and Howard's relationship more as an uncle-niece one. Nevertheless I'm sure it's supposed to be obvious that backing Jimmy wasn't the best choice, since we know how he's going to turn out. But she's done fine professionally with Jimmy. She was a solo practice working 20 hour (or more) days…

Who knows? Let's keep watching and find out.

No, that is not the way verbal contracts work.

I'm sure she will feel bad. She already feels bad about the disciplinary hearing. Jimmy will feel bad also. I just hope Howard doesn't because he really didn't do anything wrong. All he did was try to help Chuck every step of the way.

I'm not one of those people who is all "WHY IS THIS NEWS" when there is a story that doesn't interest me, but I keep seeing articles about this guy and I truly do not understand why what he's up to is news. So he is kind of a douche? What else is new about people in top management positions? Is there something…

I see no reason why Howard wouldn't tell his partners what he did. Presumably they came back to the meeting asking why Chuck is no longer a problem. He wouldn't lie to them, and there's no reason his pride and sense of duty would make him keep it a secret.

A law firm doesn't just hoard a big stash of cash. They take their profits and pay their salaries and overhead, and then distribute the profites to the partners. So it makes sense that the individual partners would have liquid assets where the firm would not. Certainly a named partner of a large law firm would have…

Well if he had been a jerk you probably wouldn't have been friends with him, presumably. With a brother he's a brother whether he's a jerk or not. But still, losing someone you love probably is just as bad whether they were nice or mean, because you still loved them. I'm sorry that happened.

I'd definitely hate to have that happen to someone near me. I'm hoping the person close to you wasn't a complete and utter asshole to you like Chuck was?

I hope Howard doesn't give a shit. He doesn't owe Chuck any sympathy.

Me too (re Howard). I have been hot and cold on Howard, but honestly he's never been that bad a guy. He's just dealing with cirumstances as they come to him. He was a little mean to Kim, but he did have some reason to feel betrayed by her. He was mean to Jimmy, but also with good reason. I thought his final hand…

No, because he didn't know he was about to go crazy and kill himself when he said that. He was just being a dick. It was losing that final tether to Jimmy that drove him over the edge, and he didn't know that was going to happen.

Well, I suppose you have the right to be wrong.