If you’re one of those lawyers toiling away at the firm and dreaming of a nice in-house job, consider the plight of this chief legal officer. Sure, serving the Willy Wonka chocolate factory was a dream job for a lot of years, but then one day the boss decided to run that Golden Ticket contest and everything went off the rails from there.
Minor Character Theater has a mockumentary profiling a trying time in the life of Rutgers Law grad Brian Finklebar, former general counsel to the Wonka company.
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This is only the first of a six-part series. You can check out the whole run over on TikTok, including an inside look at the creation of the company’s infamous waiver, Oompa Loompa overtime, and what Willy Wonka learned from Succession.
(Also, if you’re in law school and think you can create content like this, you have the rest of this week to enter the Law Revue contest.)
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