Related question, "... if the client acts on the advice of the attorney and gets results they do not like, they can sue the attorney for malpractice..."
Does that really happen a lot, or is it just something that they drill into you in law school? I never hear about attorney malpractice suits.
Why would you? They are deeply embarassing and lawyers try to make them go away as quickly and quietly as possible. However, the big ones do make the headlines - BUT, while I read Hackernews every day, and you likely do to - do you ALSO read law360, aboveTheLaw and the New York Law Journal? Because that is where you read about malpractice lawsuits. Not on techcrunch. And trust me - they happen all the goddamn time. All the goddamn time. There are lawyers who do nothing but sue other lawyers. There is an entire legal malpractice insurance industry.
And, importantly, if you are a litigator - as in, someone who sues people for a living - your clients are already demonstrably the sorts of people who are willing to sue when they are pissed off. It is not unreasonable to assume that if things go wrong in these circumstances, people turn on their lawyers.
Incompetent lawyers who are unaware of their limits and don't realize they are giving bad advice and corrupt lawyers who think they can get away with deliberately hosing their client are rare cases; the others conservatively avoid giving dangerous advice that could lead to malpractice suits.
Related question, "... if the client acts on the advice of the attorney and gets results they do not like, they can sue the attorney for malpractice..."
Does that really happen a lot, or is it just something that they drill into you in law school? I never hear about attorney malpractice suits.