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Originally Posted by Cave Johnson
Some class actions are valid. Maybe not half, but it's not zero.
Also, Chuck is a consummate smartest guy in the room prick attorney, but with a (well justified) malevolent streak towards Jimmy. And he's proven to be an "ends justify the means" guy as well.
That imalpractice insurer meeting showed a healthy Chuck for who is is, a real asshole's asshole.
Neither are simpathetuc characters.
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Most class actions have a valid enough purpose, but you have to acknowledge that the purpose is never to fully compensate the injured parties. Class actions are more about punishing offenders than making the offended whole.
And in the process, the lawyers get wealthy. That's pretty much always the nature of class action suits. Jimmy didn't have some come to jesus, Eureka! moment. He knew what these were and he had an opening to use the same old saw that lawyers have been using against the very concept of the class action since their inception.
And ultimately you're right - Chuck isn't much of a sympathetic figure either. But as the founding member of TeamChuck, I'm gonna keep playing devil's advocate on his behalf (or at least poking away at Jimmy a bit, not unlike Jimmy's meeting with the malpractice carriers).
And, in Chuck's defense, apart from being crazy, there's an excellent chance that in any room he's in, he IS the smartest guy in the room.