Better Call Saul has its moments but the casual way he goes about breaking the law or facilitating the future breaking of the law kills it.
I will say that I once had a case where a lawyer put in writing that someone should lien my clients multimillion dollar house. And the wording of the letter basically said it didn’t matter if liening my guy’s house was negligent or later proven unsupportable. Incredibly the letter said they should do it anyway despite knowledge that both the client and their lawyer knew about the situation that would make liening the house wrong.
Trouble is, doing that is a felony. And it’s a felony to aid or assist someone doing that, even if they do it under the subjective belief they are just selling good faith legal advice to clients.
We went for a visit to that lawyers office with a copy of the letter and a sworn statement authenticating it and disclosing that it was lawfully obtained from one of the original recipients.
The settlement I obtained as a result of that conversation with the client AND the lawyer AND the lawyer’s insurance company was even larger than I had hoped. We went in expecting an apology and the closure of a deal that would benefit my client and save his business. I walked out with a seven figure check for him.
About four years later, this scene was on TV and my jaw dropped at how the way it unfolded was almost exactly the same as the story above in real life. Even my wife, also a lawyer, said his mannerisms and word choice was exactly like me when people piss me off and I have time to set up for it. She said it was uncanny except for the pinky ring and haircut.