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I wonder if it could ever be considered fraud to accept payment for a case you know to be unwinnable, seeing as how the client would have to be operating under
by DangitBobby 5y ago
I wonder if it could ever be considered fraud to accept payment for a case you know to be unwinnable, seeing as how the client would have to be operating under the assumption that the case is winnable.
- MiddleEndian 5y agoHe'd need to get some new lawyers to sue the original lawyers! Lawyers all the way down...
- elzbardico 5y ago> Lawyers all the way down Sir, this is the stuff nightmares are made of
- webmaven 5y ago> I wonder if it could ever be considered fraud to accept payment for a case you know to be unwinnable, seeing as how the client would have to be operating under the assumption that the case is winnable. If the lawyers gave him legal advice that was obviously bad or false, there could be a malpractice case. Most likely they did tell him (though probably not very forcefully), and he proceeded anyway against the advice of counsel. Happens all the time.