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Originally Posted by kjwood75nro
They cared nothing about Hamlin. They were more than happy to make him a paranoid, drug-using, prostitution-hiring, abusive, compromised lawyer that can't do his job.
He called them out on it, nailed it to a T, and they still denied it, implying that he was drunk.
Only when the consequences of their own actions arrived, did they decide to do the right thing and try to make him leave.
Soulless.
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This is nothing like killing a kid for inadvertently witnessing the wrong thing.
They attacked his reputation because his reputation was the obstacle between a good settlement for a case Jimmy found, and a potential but completely unrealized future resolution that Hamlin was marketing on the foundation of his reputation and the deep pockets/patience afforded by his firm who snaked the case from Jimmy.
We can quibble about how much of his reputation Hamlin 'deserved.' But they weren't ****ing the class, or the clients, or even the firm or the case, . . . they were ****ing the vision of how the case should proceed that Hamlin imposed with his reputational gravity by, albeit underhandedly, shifting the perspectives of key people to see the chessboard a little more like they did.
Cliff's input is critical here. . . It's entirely possible that Hamlin presented a sufficiently compelling explanation that Cliff had lingering tendency to believe that everything he was spinning was true, but he kept his eye on what was best for the clients. Jimmy had negotiated a fair settlement offer, and Hamlin had convinced the clients that, with lots of waiting and institutional pressure, he could bleed the company for more. . . That's a pissing contest between rival advocates. Whatever Jimmy and Kim's shenanigans, they had shifted the landscape for the suit, and it was prudent to accept the fair settlement Jimmy had gotten on the table.