AMC's Better Call Saul is one of the most talked-about shows on television, serving as therapy for the world's Breaking Bad withdrawal, with many fans growing to prefer Better Call Saul. While Breaking Bad presented Saul Goodman as a lighter character whose true motivations are never really explored, Better Call Saul shows us the man behind the charismatic mask and gets into the nitty-gritty of life as a lawyer.

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While still utilizing a healthy amount of dramatic license, Better Call Saul goes above and beyond when it comes to doing their homework and presenting a realistic world. While some might question the entertainment value of getting into thick of something as complicated and mundane as the practice of law, Saul's adventures are anything but mundane, and the result is a show that satisfies both lawyers and TV nerds alike.

Right: Court Life

Devin J. Stone, a Trial Attorney, known on Youtube as Legal Eagle, reacted to the first episode of Better Call Saul in his video "Real Lawyer Reacts to Better Call Saul (Episode 1)" and gave it a grade of A- for legal realism, an unusually high grade for the channel.

He cites the accurate depiction of the monotony of courtroom life with minimal dramatic license, big firm attorneys being jerks, the unglamorous life of an attorney just trying to make ends meet, and fraudster ambulance chasers jumping in front of cars.

Wrong: Saul's Office

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Saul's office is a lot of fun visually, but in reality, even the cheesiest of strip mall lawyers don't come close to the level of tackiness Saul's office achieves. It's almost as if he's trying to seem illegitimate. To be fair, Better Call Saul might have played it more subtly were the office not a handover from Breaking Bad.

Right: Res Ipsa Loquitur

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"Res ipsa Loquitur" is Latin for "The thing speaks for itself." In the first episode of Better Call Saul, we see Jimmy put on an endearing show for the jury while defending three young men. The prosecutor responds with no arguments, but merely plays the tape showing the crime in progress, which turned out to be decapitating a cadaver and performing sexual acts with the head.

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The scene plays out hilariously and demonstrates a lot about the protagonist, and is also very realistic. Sometimes the evidence is just too overwhelming, and there's no need for any persuasive language.

Wrong: The Saloon Doors

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You're not allowed to enter the well without permission. As Legal Eagle will be the first to point out, the bailiff will tackle you. Despite getting a lot of things right, Jimmy enters the court and barges straight into the well, a Hollywood cliche Jimmy would know not to do.

This is one instance where reality would be more entertaining, having our charismatic protagonists tackled to the ground two words into their monologues.

Right: Courtroom Bathrooms

Screen depictions of court are a lot more realistic now than they were in the 90s, but one aspect that is still often overlooked is the courtroom bathroom. Often any old bathroom will do since it's not necessarily in the same building as the courtroom set.

Better Call Saul nails it, opening the show with Jimmy practicing his spiel on himself in a large, dull-colored grubby bathroom as old as the building it's in: a common behavior of trial attorneys in a typical habitat.

Wrong: A CRIMINAL Criminal Lawyer...

While shady criminal lawyers do exist, it would be surprising to find one as hands-on as Saul. In a video titled "Finding Fact in a Fictional Lawyer: How "real" is Saul Goodman?", Attorney and Youtube personality Matthew Benson says of the subject: "Most criminal defense attorneys do not actively work to cover up criminal activity while it's occurring. Goodman is effectively a co-conspirator in a lot of illegal activities."

It's also unusual for the criminal lawyers to be the ones on their knees in the desert with a gun to their head, but Saul often ends up in that position.

Right: Working The Jury

Saul's opening defense is a masterclass in working the jury. He immediately gets ahead of the bad facts he has to deal with, reminding the audience that his clients are people too and that we all have things we wouldn't want held against us.

He also calls his clients knuckleheads as they stare at their shoes, humanizing his clients and re-enforcing the idea that they're just dumb kids. This is exactly how a real attorney would go about this defense, and Jimmy did as well as anyone could've done in that scenario.

Wrong: The Old Switcharoo

One of Better Call Saul's memorable court scenes involves Jimmy placing a disguised decoy in the defendant's chair to trick a witness into claiming the decoy is the man he saw without question. Jimmy then reveals his client is actually at the back of the courtroom and gets him to stand up.

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He would almost certainly get sanctioned by the judge, and causing problems for the judge is never going to get you points. Also, the logistics required to pull it off seem unrealistic.

Right: Tearing Up The Cheque

Given the lack of explosions, screen lawyers like to tear and crumple up important pieces of paper. It's dynamic and dramatic and can help breathe life into a show that's all talk. When Jimmy tears up the cheque from Hamlin, Hamlin, & McGill in the first episode, it may just seem like Jimmy has a problem with Howard.

Even though Chuck is no longer with the firm, he could enter into a contract through conduct if he cashes the cheque, which explains why Jimmy felt the need to obliterate it and question regular smaller payments.

Wrong: Shady Lawyers

While the Saul of Better Call Saul is a lot more realistic than the Saul of Breaking Bad, he is still a tastefully cartoonish version of a lawyer. Some dubious criminal lawyers may associate themselves with gangsters and even dip their toes in crime, but Saul himself is an example of a (relatively) good man who's made all the wrong choices.

He's more an embodiment of the kind of person most lawyers fear becoming and a thoughtful exploration of the sleazy lawyer character we all know from the movies.

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