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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Well, sure. But in a case in which you've only paid out 20K you're going to have to prove some pretty bad conduct to get more than your money back because, after all, what are the damages other than your 20K you are out? I find that in cases like this often the lawyers are either idiots or dishonest and will tell their clients that the case is worth much more than it is. Litigants obviously trust their lawyers and are unpleasantly surprised to find out that the lawyers were full of it. I'm not suggesting that is what occurred here but that sort of thing happens all the time. Look, there is a reason people generally dislike attorneys; it's not by accident.