Not if your clients are paying by way of an insurance policy (which often happens in litigation). Then they might as well spend up to the policy limit. And in l

Not if your clients are paying by way of an insurance policy (which often happens in litigation). Then they might as well spend up to the policy limit. And in lots of other cases, you hire lawyers based on the prestige principle. I.e., "hey don't blame me, I hired the best lawyers I could!"