The reaction of the lawyer is understandable, it being the sole prerogative of lawyers to bully hapless victims into submission and, if not bully, at least to trick and cajole them into giving them what they want and, if not that, in extremis, to get a true day in court for their client in which the victim can finally speak up, and might even win, but then the client on whose behalf the bullying is done pays in spades for the privilege of financing a futile process in which everyone loses except, of course, the lawyers who invented a system dating back at least to Jarndyce v. Jarndyce (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarndyce_and_Jarndyce) for the betterment of society and only incidentally for those who might take a modest profit from their humble efforts in the service of humanity.