I would guess that you’re smart enough to check on whether a client has a long history of stiffing his lawyers/contractors/employees and either demand overpayment up front, or funds transferred to an escrow acct in anticipation of future services, or just decline to represent that client.
These lawyers did not do that, and the likely result happened.
Thus, no sympathy. I mean, if the general public knows that these grifters don’t pay their bills, then the legal community certainly does.
