History Characters / BetterCallSaulLawyers

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->'''Portrayed by:''' Dennis Boutsikaris

* FriendlyEnemy: Even though Schweikart is opposing council in the Sandpiper case (and opposed Jimmy personally when he first started investigating it), he's likable and pleasant. Jimmy gets off on the wrong foot with him a little ("Blow ''my'' magic flute") but grows to like him well enough, is happy that he offers a job to Kim. [[spoiler:He also offers his condolences to Jimmy when he attends Chuck's funeral, calling Chuck "[[WorthyOpponent a hell of a lawyer]]."]]

** Secondly, Jimmy and Chuck have to take the case to HHM in order to feasibly fight it, leading to the truth of Chuck's disdain for his brother coming out into the open, destroying their relationship, and playing a major role in [[spoiler:Chuck's having his reputation ruined, being forced out of HHM, and then committing suicide]]. For added measure, it also leads to the trainwreck of Jimmy's brief employment and Davis and Main.
** Thirdly, the case ending up at HHM results in Howard being on the receiving end of Jimmy's and later Kim's attempts to speed up its resolution, eventually resulting in [[spoiler:Howard getting his own reputation destroyed even more thoroughly than Chuck's was, before getting killed by Lalo after he has the misfortune to show up to Jimmy's and Kim's apartment at the wrong time]].

* InnocentlyInsensitive: In the midst of gushing over Chuck, he says he figured he’d be arguing in front of the supreme court one day, seemingly unaware of how much Chuck feels he’s wasted his whole potential.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler:And how! Chuck fires him despite being a good carer and for the crime of being Jimmy's friend.]]

'''Lawyers''' ([[Characters/BreakingBadSaulGoodman Jimmy [=McGill=]/Saul Goodman]], [[Characters/BetterCallSaulKimWexler Kim Wexler]], [[Characters/BetterCallSaulChuckMcGill Chuck McGill]], [[Characters/BetterCallSaulHowardHamlin Howard Hamlin]]), [[Characters/BetterCallSaulLawEnforcement Law Enforcement]], [[Characters/BetterCallSaulCartel Juarez Cartel]] ([[Characters/BetterCallSaulNachoVarga Nacho Varga]], [[Characters/BetterCallSaulLaloSalamanca Lalo Salamanca]]), [[Characters/BetterCallSaulLosPollosHermanos Los Pollos Hermanos]] ([[Characters/BreakingBadMikeEhrmantraut Mike Ehrmantraut]], [[Characters/BreakingBadGustavoFring Gustavo Fring]]), [[Characters/BetterCallSaulOmaha Omaha]], [[Characters/BetterCallSaulPettyCriminals Petty Criminals]], [[Characters/BetterCallSaulOtherCharacters Other Characters]] | -]]]]]

!Wexler [=McGill=]

** This is inverted after Saul flees Albuquerque and, seeing a gap in the market, Bill gets [[{{Greed}} greedy]] and decides to reinvent himself as exactly the same kind of lawyer Saul was.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KeikoAgena

->'''Portrayed By:''' James Dowling

->'''Portrayed By:''' Brandon K. Hampton

->'''Portrayed By:''' Jackamoe Buzzell

* NiceGuy: While monitoring Chuck at the beginning of the episode, he appears polite and respectful to him, and appreciating his offer of letting him sleep in his bed.

* TheKlutz: He is introduced dropping a carton of sodas and spilling them everywhere.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Anthony Escobar

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/EdBegleyJr

* CoolOldGuy: Cliff is chill, genial and even plays acoustic guitar in his office.
* GoodIsNotSoft: He's the kind of guitar-playing, hip and understanding boss that you'd expect from a character played by Ed Begley Jr, but he's ''not'' a pushover and gets understandably upset when Jimmy goes behind his back to run a homemade Davis & Main ad without authorization. He also doesn't care about Jimmy's attempts to apologize since he is still taking his bonus from him.

* ShutUpHannibal: When Jimmy defends himself by showing result and interpreting his open mindedness to a commercial as justification for working behind his back, Cliff has none of that and points out that 30 seconds before leaving the building is not an agreement. Sure Jimmy didn't do it for evil but he didn't even get why what he did was wrong.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Lucinda Marker

* WhatTheHellHero: She and her colleagues denounces Jimmy for doing an end-run around the senior partners when he ran an unapproved commercial.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/DavidGrantWright

* WhatTheHellHero: Along with Cliff and Cordova, he's angry with Jimmy for running unapproved commercial.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Jessie Ennis

* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Jimmy can't when she's handling him. She stops him from doing anything that even comes close to toeing the line of ethical.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Luis Bordonada

->'''Portrayed By:''' Omar Maskati

[[folder:Rich Schweikart]]

->'''Portrayed By:''' Dennis Boutsikaris

->'''Portrayed By:''' Esodie Gieger

->'''Portrayed By:''' Suzanne Savoy

->'''Portrayed By:''' Marty Lindsey

->'''Portrayed By:''' Geoffrey Pomeroy

* SpearCarrier: Discusses settling things over Sandpiper with Chuck and Jimmy, then doesn't appear for a long time afterwards.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Cara Pifko

->'''Portrayed By:''' Peter Diseth

** In 2010, when Francesca tells him on the phone that Oakley "switched sides", Saul's first instinct is to assume that it means Bill came out as a gay man, before Francesca clarifies that he switched his occupation from prosecutor to defense attorney.

* DeadpanSnarker: Whether it's talking about the "brain-dead" people he's prosecuting or engaging in SnarkToSnarkCombat with Jimmy, Bill is a stiff with a sharp tongue.

* EvilPowerVacuum: As revealed in Season 6, he eventually [[spoiler:left the DA's office and began working in private practice as a a sleazy, bus-bench-advertising defense attorney--filling the exact same gap in the market that Saul left when he fled Albuquerque]].

* FriendlyEnemy: Although he's a frequent antagonist to Jimmy in the courtroom, he's only doing his job and neither of them hold any sincere ill will toward one another. The only time Jimmy really seems infuriated by him is when he mixes up case files.

* LawfulStupid: He has a reputation for being very difficult to bargain with, and when Jimmy tries at one point, Oakley simply keeps repeating the same phrase ("Petty with a prior") no matter what Jimmy does to try to reason with him. Hilariously, in that particular case Jimmy winds up showing that Oakley actually has his cases mixed up, and has been talking about the wrong case/defendant the whole time.
* LoggingOntoTheFourthWall: A bench advertising his own practice leads to an actual website, which be seen [[https://www.oakley4defenselaw.com/ here]].

* SelectiveObliviousness: He's epically blind to what he doesn't want or expect to see. From the wrong case files to not seeing Jimmy's blatant discomfort when he just ''keeps banging on'' about the car and house like a stuck record.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Saidah Arrika Ekulona

->'''Portrayed By:''' Quinn [=VanAntwerp=]

* DontAnswerThat: He tries to stop Chuck from answering any private questions Jimmy asks, but Chuck is too arrogant to take his advice. Plus, Jimmy made sure to get a lot of leeway thanks to the tape.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: He compares (exaggeratedly) Chuck's condition to schizophrenia, which is blatantly albeit inadvertently insulting to Chuck, who's already very sensitive about his condition.

* SayingTooMuch: The ''crucial'' reason he fucks up when prosecuting the case: the way he carelessly labels Chuck's condition as comparable to schizophrenia, basically accusing his own client of being mentally ill in the process, helps push Chuck (who's very sensitive about precisely that) to have an emotional breakdown on the stand.

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->'''Portrayed By:''' Kimberly Herbert Gregory

* OutsideContextProblem: A Downplayed, Invoked and rather mundane case. Since the entire District Attorney's office knows Jimmy, Albuquerque's legal system has to summon her from Belen so Jimmy can be taken to court without causing a conflict of interest. This means Jimmy can't get as much info on his own case as planned when he tries to [[FoodAsBribe ask]] Oakley for details.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Hay is described by her colleague Oakley as "tough but fair," and for the most part it's true but she does seem to be a little bias in favour of Chuck; granted, this is because she doesn't have all the facts in her possession.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Julie Pearl

* TheCon: Becomes a target for Jimmy and Kim in "Coushatta", where she's gradually tricked into believing she's wrong for trying to prosecute Huell, and drops the case under the belief that he's something of a hometown hero and will cause a media circus if taken to court.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Ericsen seeks to get a ''three year prison sentence'' against Huell for assaulting a plainclothes police officer, even though she's previously prosecuted five other people who committed the same crime (in much more violent ways than Huell, who just hit the guy over the head with a grocery bag) and sought lesser sentences in those earlier cases. When Kim calls her out on her faulty logic, Ericsen reasons that Huell's sentence should be longer because he was previously arrested for pickpocketing, even though he had no violent history like the other defendants.

* {{Jerkass}}: Her attitude in the Huell case. She blindly takes the word of the cop (who as Jimmy mentioned had been put on desk duty twice for alcoholism) over Huell, tries to give Huell an excessive sentence simply because he was a repeat offender (even though Huell's history is less violent than other defendants she's prosecuted for worse variants of Huell's offense, and sought lesser sentences for), and dismisses Jimmy as a "scumbag disbarred lawyer" (never mind Jimmy was only suspended, not disbarred).
* JerkassHasAPoint: Attitude aside Huell did assault the cop, the sentence becomes way less excessive if you keep in mind Huell is a career criminal (he is in Calderas' notebook if for pickpocketing or intimidation services)and Jimmy is a scumbag lawyer (who dodged disbarrment by hiding his major offense).

* {{Narcissist}}: In addition to her {{Jerkass}} attitudes she also seems to have tendencies toward this, with part of her ''American Greed'' interview consisting of her taking time to groom herself in a mirror.

* NiceGuy: Portrayed as one of the more sympathetic, agreeable judges, and one of the easiest for a defense attorney to get a favourable outcome from. Jimmy expresses gratitude when she presides over any of his cases, while Gomez compares her to [[UsefulNotes/{{Vietnam}} Ho Chi Minh]] for her perceived liberal leanings.

* EvilPowerVacuum: As revealed in Season 6, he eventually left the DA's office and began working in private practice as a a sleazy, bus-bench-advertising defense attorney--filling the exact same gap in the market that Saul left when he fled Albuquerque.

* SelectiveObliviousness: He's epically blind to what he doesn't want or expect to see. From the wrong case files to not seeing Jimmy's blatant discomfort when he ''just keeps banging on'' about the car and house like a stuck record.

** He could be seen as one to Season 1 Jimmy [=McGill=], if Jimmy didn't have all the family baggage and conman past; a balding down-on-his-luck lawyer doing public defense-related work at the courthouse with an ill-fitting suit and an abrasive personality.

* ThrowTheDogABone: He's finally seen winning a case, against [[spoiler:post-Saul Jimmy]], thanks to the latter having [[spoiler:lost his skill after particularly traumatic events]]. Moreover, it was [[TakeOurWordForIt supposedly]] a case that [[spoiler:Jimmy]] was set to win easily, and he still ended up giving it to Bill.

* DumbassNoMore: Throughout the series, he isn't shown as a particularly professional or quick-witted individual, but he nevertheless has a successful enough career to launch his own law firm less than a year after Saul Goodman's downfall.

* SavedByCanon: [[spoiler:Oakley's appearance in the ''American Greed'' episode, set after the fall of Heisenberg, indirectly reveals that he survives the events of ''Better Call Saul''.]]

A lawyer prosecuting petty criminals. Frequently goes up against Jimmy [=McGill=].

* EvilPowerVacuum: "BreakingBad" reveals that he has quit working as a public prosecutor and begun working in private practice as a a sleazy, ambulance-chansing defence attorney- filling the exact same gap in the market that Saul left when he fled Albuquerque.

* NiceGuy: Portrayed as one of the more sympathetic, agreeable judges, and one of the easiest for a defense attorney to get a favourable outcome from. Jimmy expresses gratitude when she presides over any of his cases, while Gomez compares her to [[UsefulNotes/Vietnam Ho Chi Minh]] for her perceived liberal leanings.

* NiceGuy: Portrayed as one of the more sympathetic, agreeable judges, and one of the easiest for a defense attorney to get a favourable outcome from. Jimmy expresses gratitude when she presides over any of his cases, while Hank and Gomez resent her for her liberal leanings when she thwarts their attempts to investigate Mike by issuing a restraining order against them.