Kim is relegated to a menial job reviewing documents for failing to inform HHM of Jimmy`s advertising. [18] In order to regain her status at HHM, Kim uses her contacts to win a new client and manages to land at Mesa Verde Bank. Howard is happy to have the company, but refuses Kim`s creditworthiness. [27] Jimmy suggests that they form a partnership. Kim counters by suggesting that they open separate practices in a shared office, so Jimmy leaves D&M, Kim leaves HHM, and they start their new businesses. [37] [17] Kim manages to win Mesa Verde as a client, but Chuck persuades Mesa Verde to stay with HHM. [38] As co-founder of the law firm Schweikart & Cokely, Richard Schweikart presents himself as a leading expert and lawyer for Sandpiper Crossing. Richard Schweikart has many years of experience behind his back and a talented law firm to get the best result from a bad situation for his clients. Kim tells Howard that she has left S&C. Kim laughs at the thought that she is unable to decide for herself. Kim later suggests that she and Jimmy take revenge on Howard by forcing a settlement of the Sandpiper case, giving Jimmy his seven-figure share of the settlement earlier. Jimmy advises against it, but Kim confidently confirms his intention by returning the same finger gun gesture that Jimmy used when he announced he wanted to practice under the name Saul Goodman as a lawyer. [b] [64] Jimmy is of Irish descent and was born on November 12, 1960 in Cicero, Illinois, near Chicago.
His older brother Chuck became a successful lawyer as a partner in a law firm in Albuquerque, Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill (HHM). As a child, Jimmy worked at his parents` corner store in Cicero, watching customers take advantage of his weak and naïve father, Charles Sr. Jimmy soon began stealing money from the store itself. [17] According to Chuck, Jimmy embezzled $14,000 from his family`s store, resulting in his father`s bankruptcy. His father died six months later; Jimmy cried inconsolably at the funeral. [18] While working in the FM mailroom, Jimmy befriended Kim Wexler, an FM employee who attended the University of New Mexico Law School at the firm`s request. Over time, their friendship became romantic. Inspired by his success and Chuck`s career, Jimmy resumed his studies, completing his bachelor`s degree and then a J.D. from the University of American Samoa School of Law by correspondence. He passed the bar exam in hopes of being hired by HHM, but unbeknownst to Jimmy, Chuck forced his senior partner Howard Hamlin to deny Jimmy the opportunity.[25] [26] Jimmy then began an individual practice as a lawyer, working in the laundry room of a Vietnamese nail salon in a shopping mall.
During this time, he took charge of every business he could get, including poorly paid public defense work. When Kim Wexler earned her law degree, paid for by Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill, she had the idea to continue her legal work at the law firm and become a lawyer. Her legal career as a lawyer has been highly valued by her many clients, and she has devoted all the time she had to it. As co-founder and partner of Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill, Chuck McGill is a brilliant lawyer at a prestigious law firm. Chuck values the law to the highest degree, perhaps more than anyone else. Chuck has great intelligence and brilliant attention to detail in the sharpest things. Chuck will do the right thing no matter what, because he sees it as the only path to success. Jimmy confronts Chuck, who admits that he hates Jimmy`s legal career and believes he is still a cheater at heart. [33] Jimmy returns to Cicero and spends a week directing Cons with Marco, who dies of a heart attack while they engage in their latest joint fraud. Jimmy returned to Albuquerque when Kim called to say that the Sandpiper business had continued to grow, so HHM appealed to another company, Davis & Main. Knowing that he understands the details of the deal better than anyone else and has established personal relationships with clients, Kim convinces Davis & Main to hire Jimmy as an employee. Jimmy returns home and is ready to meet Davis & Main`s partners, but has doubts and leaves.
[24] While looking for a job, Jimmy discovers an opportunity to steal a valuable Hummel figurine from the owner of a photocopier store, for which he hires Ira. [50] [51] While running a cell phone store, Jimmy uses his symbolic Chuck legacy to start a lucrative side business that sells prepaid phones on the street, again under the pseudonym Saul Goodman. [21] Kim misses practicing banking law for Mesa Verde and begins accepting pro bono criminal defense cases, which she finds more satisfying. Kim persuades Schweikart & Cokely, the company that represents Sandpiper, to hire her as a partner for a new banking division, but tells Jimmy that senior partner Rich Schweikart was looking for her. [25] Jimmy and Kim attend Howard`s memorial service at HHM and learn that the company is small and renowned.