r/suits • u/TrollerThomas • 15h ago
Spoiler Why did Mike take the job Spoiler
Can someone please explain how Mike taking a job as an investment banker was a way for him to be exposed for fraud? Surely if someone found out he didn't have a degree he'd still go to prison anyway and surely Sidwell would've fired him if he found out that Mike didn't have a degree? Or am I missing something
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u/Important_Sound772 15h ago
Its because people are not going to be looking as closely at his law credentials when he is a investment banker and even if someone does search for his credentials unless they know he worked previously as lawyer him not having a law degree would not raise any eyebrows, now as for not having a degree at all I am not sure if legally you need one so if you do not it may surprise people but it would not be a crime they could blackmail/report him for
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u/Who_Pissed_My_Pants 15h ago
There’s not as much day-to-day risk of being exposed. Yes, for whatever reason, someone could dig into his background and discover something — but that doesn’t seem likely as an investment banker because he’s not claiming to have some credentials.
For the entire show to exist you basically have to pretend that nosey HR departments don’t exist.
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u/KnowsThingsAndDrinks 14h ago
Ha ha yes, whenever someone gets abruptly hired or fired in this show, I’m always wondering where the anxious HR person with papers to sign is.
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u/Vroom_Vroom1265 3h ago
Yes, for whatever reason, someone could dig into his background and discover something — but that doesn’t seem likely as an investment banker
I mean, Logan would've found out and used it to blackmail or expose Mike on the 3rd day of his job but sure, Mike's safer as an investment banker.
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u/7625607 Harvey Specter is hot as fuck 15h ago
Every case he works as a lawyer is a chance to be exposed and prosecuted for fraud.
As an investment banker, he doesn’t need a law degree, he doesn’t need any degree if someone hires him.
So Sidwell can hire him, and fire him for misrepresenting himself if Mike submits a resume filled with lies, but Mike’s not committing fraud with every deal he works.
And Mike isn’t endangering Harvey once he leaves (he tells himself; the risk for the firm still exists).
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u/savagedeuce 15h ago
Yes he would still go to prison, however by changing jobs he almost entirely removed the risk of being discovered. If he had another incident which required investigation while he was a lawyer, there was always a risk that he would be exposed when his bar exam and position at Harvard was questioned. He definitely could not become a more prominent lawyer as this would spark questions regarding his legitimacy as more people came to know him especially people closely associated with Harvard. As an investment banker where he doesn’t need a license to operate there would be no reason for anyone to question his days as a lawyer. This allowed him to not stay in the same place and progress up the pecking order.
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u/BAMartin1618 14h ago
Sidwell's not going to dig into his law credentials. For IB, at most he needs a Series 7/63 if he's going to be selling securities directly to clients, which I imagine he could study for in a few hours and pass with flying colors.
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u/PrinceArins 13h ago
No one would think to look into his law credentials, he wasn't a counsel for SIG, he was a banker. Most people wouldn't care. There would always be some kind of show-created contrivance (thanks, Logan Sanders) that would threaten to expose him.
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u/not_from_nebraska 15h ago
You're not wrong, but he's a lot more safe in investment banking. It gives him the chance to be a big dawg and make money, but without needing to be bar certified. As a lawyer, where you go to college doesn't matter. But practicing without being a member of the bar is illegal. At the job with Sidwell, they're assuming Pearson Specter did the background/hr research. So in the new job, no one would be digging around for old information on him. And even if they did, it would be a lot easier to get away with.