>Billy Mitchell asks for $350k in damages
>Karl Jobst offers to pay Billy $3k in damages
>Karl pays his lawyers more than $600k - 170% the cost of the damages!
>Karl's lawyers guided him through a deposition and behavior that made the judge absolutely despise him
>Karl loses everything, putting himself in the hole for $950k
>Karl is satisfied with the performance of these lawyers and is sticking with them for the appeal
at around the first $100k that you set on fire, did you not think something like
>huh, I bet that Billy would've just taken this amount and gone away and even agreed to never tell anyone how much I paid him!