About half the practice of a decent lawyer consists of telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should stop.
Elihu Root, quoted in Philip C. Jessup, Elihu Root (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1964), vol. 1, p. 133, as cited by Lloyd B. Snyder, "Is attorney-client confidentiality necessary?", Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Spring 2002, p. 33.
Nice quote, but relevant to what?
This link.
Would anybody besides a damned fool have expected any different outcome?