I agree. If you are making millions, per month, you bring in the experience. It can be through either new hire(s) or consultant. That experience can be brought in. At the very least, if you either can't or won't do the job, advise the customer and step back from that liability. What they did was either gross negligence or done on purpose. Turn Sidley Austin loose on them! Make an example of them, worthy of national headlines!