The vast majority of criminals have assets lower than their total penalties &#x2F; damages payable. You&#x27;re basically asking lawyers to hope that their clients will have enough money left after they have paid their damages? And you&#x27;re saying defense lawyers will do that because... what... otherwise they&#x27;d have to find clients in other fields of law?<p>&quot;It&#x27;s actually super common to wait years for payment in tons of industries, including law.&quot;<p>8| No it&#x27;s not, except in law for cases on contingency basis. Which only make sense in cases where there might be a huge settlement or punitive damages. There are very few companies that can even afford to wait for their money for years.<p>&quot;They have plenty of money, enough to wait for some time for a payday.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m not sure if you&#x27;re just trolling here? You seem to have a conception of the economics of running small law offices (which is what the vast majority of criminal defense lawyers are) that is massively detached from reality.