Foggy clearly got into being a lawyer to make her happy and follow in her footsteps because she's a huge deal in the legal community.
In the comics, she offers to start a firm with him and lets him get really excited and think she's proud of him, but she neglects to tell him it's because she wants to work with Matt. Then, she does nothing but berate him (about not just his legal abilities, but also his weight, choice of girlfriend, attitude, cowardice, etc.) over the course of them working together, including to Matt who only tolerates her at all because he loves his friend and because she threatens to humiliate and fire Foggy, even ruin his reputation, if Matt walks away from their firm.
You see that she hates Foggy's stepmom who actually raised him and calls her stuff like "that woman". (Anna hates her right back).
When she finds out that Foggy is somehow connected to Daredevil she spreads the word to the press that their firm is Daredevil's representation and that her son knows him personally (even though it makes Foggy uncomfortable). She spends a lot of time trying to mold Foggy into her own image (which earned her the nickname Razor in the legal community).
And, the finishing blow, when Foggy is falsely accused of murder she fires him anyway and refuses to let their firm represent him, telling Matt that it's punishment for her son humiliating her by getting arrested in the first place and that he can rot in jail for all she cares.
Obviously that is the point at which Matt tells her where she can shove it and helps Foggy anyway.
And Foggy takes everything she dishes out to him with good humour and a desire to get her approval.
Re: Foggy's family in the comics
Foggy clearly got into being a lawyer to make her happy and follow in her footsteps because she's a huge deal in the legal community.
In the comics, she offers to start a firm with him and lets him get really excited and think she's proud of him, but she neglects to tell him it's because she wants to work with Matt. Then, she does nothing but berate him (about not just his legal abilities, but also his weight, choice of girlfriend, attitude, cowardice, etc.) over the course of them working together, including to Matt who only tolerates her at all because he loves his friend and because she threatens to humiliate and fire Foggy, even ruin his reputation, if Matt walks away from their firm.
You see that she hates Foggy's stepmom who actually raised him and calls her stuff like "that woman". (Anna hates her right back).
When she finds out that Foggy is somehow connected to Daredevil she spreads the word to the press that their firm is Daredevil's representation and that her son knows him personally (even though it makes Foggy uncomfortable). She spends a lot of time trying to mold Foggy into her own image (which earned her the nickname Razor in the legal community).
And, the finishing blow, when Foggy is falsely accused of murder she fires him anyway and refuses to let their firm represent him, telling Matt that it's punishment for her son humiliating her by getting arrested in the first place and that he can rot in jail for all she cares.
Obviously that is the point at which Matt tells her where she can shove it and helps Foggy anyway.
And Foggy takes everything she dishes out to him with good humour and a desire to get her approval.
It's pretty brutal.