Yeah, it definitely seems clear that the huge office was coming from the bribe-ahem-retainer. Returning that means giving up on having that office.
He’s probably making some money from the elder law, but from what we were seeing last episode it was basically $140 from seniors divvying up their hummel figurines to settle scores with their relatives. There can be quite a few of those, but it hardly seems to be more than a middle-class income at this point. Not the high-flying lawyer Jimmy wants to be…
I do agree that impressing Kim really matters to him. But I don’t think he gave up Kim by doing the “right thing” - more like that money was something he wouldn’t want her to know about. Which is not going to bode well for him, the deeper he gets into the shit that’s coming.
