he has this breach of contract case. He is the defendant (he got sued). He is now lawyer shopping. Without divulging attorney client privilege information his current (or soon to be ex-lawyer) had a fairly brilliant litigation plan, but let the insurance company that was paying for the defense get too involved and didn't authorize certain key aspects, there are some procedural problems, discovery not answered, deadline for motion for summary judgment blown, response for request for admissions over due and the prior lawyer forgot to raise a very important affirmative defense, that might provide a complete defense to the lawsuit.

The case is set for trial in June 2018 with a case management conference the Wednesday after this coming labor day.

I could do a lot of work and make several motions, get the trial continued possibly, amend our answers, file responses to overdue request for admissions and ask the court to set aside the admissions, etc. and we could take the case to mediation and probably get it settled

Sounds like a lot of work.

So instead I told the client--"Well let's just let the lawsuit fail, the plaintiffs get a huge judgment against you and then you will really hate your now lawyer and love me even more and then we will have a great big fat malpractice suit against your prior lawyer and maybe a bad faith claim against your insurance company, it will be easy, believe me. Money for nothing"

He said he'd call me.

He hasn't called.

Was it something I said?==============================