Fine, I kind of see your point.

She doesn't know what? That the lawyer with three days' stubble and no shoes isn't Johnny Cochran?

Shhhhh.

We get it, you didn't like that line.

It would not be in her best in interest to get bogged down in a criminal trial she's almost guaranteed to lose for a client with no money.

"she would want to look out for her own self-interest and therefore wouldn't feel fully able to reject him lest she lose his representation in the future."

He's obviously not a powerful lawyer who is able to be very selective of his clientele. And she could call up literally any other lawyer.

Generally speaking, it's legal for a lawyer to provide representation in exchange for goods and services.

You're assuming it's coercive. Perhaps she prefers bartering for service rather than paying.

If she paid in cash instead, where do you think that money came from?

60 seconds.

When a show uses their 'cunty,' they forfeit all their 'fucks.'

Further convinced that this is a show about one man's struggle with eczema, with a subplot about a murder and the criminal justice system.

What a goofball.

BZZT, wrong.

Maybe he wore one of these:

You're disappointing.

Shea Whigham here, Paul Sparks (Mickey Doyle) in The Night Of. It's good to be an HBO character actor.

I'm not sure how many sexual brutes wear condoms.

The feet are really grating. One reference per episode might be tolerable, but this episode had at least five separate references to his feet. Show some damn restraint.