You know, it's not really the money involved. It's the principle of the thing. I just don't want to let this guy get away with this. Because six months or a year from now, our client will be mired in a swamp of litigation, covered with lawsuit mud and goo, plastered with legal bills.
Clients so situated then often make two decisions.
The first is that he or she wants out of the case. The second is that the whole mess is the lawyer's fault. Clients who feel this way don't want to pay the lawyer. Lawyers know this, or darned well should know it. So should you.