In the television drama Breaking Bad, when Walter White’s legal problems in the drugs trade become overwhelming, Jesse Pinkman tells him: “You don’t want a criminal lawyer, you want a ‘criminal’ lawyer.” Enter Saul Goodman, with an inflatable model of the Statue of Liberty on the roof of his office, the best advertising slogan in the legal profession (“Better Call Saul”), and a relationship with professional ethics that is not taught in any law school.

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