In-House Counsel

Willy Wonka’s In-House Counsel Is Back And Handling Jurassic Park’s Legal Problems

Life... and legal disasters... find a way.

Last year, we featured a documentary from Minor Character Theater about Rutgers Law grad Brian Finklebar, the former general counsel to the Willy Wonka Chocolate company as his C-Suite slowly drives him insane with illegal lotteries, rampant labor violations, and non-stop child endangerment.

Well, he’s back. And now he’s working for John Hammond’s Jurassic Park and his work life has somehow managed to get even worse.

This is actually the second installment of Finklebar’s Jurassic Park work, having previously featured his work behind-the-scenes of the first film. We feel for Finklebar and hope he someday finds an in-house job that gives him some peace of mind. I’ve heard about this startup called the Weyland-Yutani Corporation… some sort of long-haul transportation company? Sounds like a place that really cares about its employees.


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