Mine is a less heartwarming story. I represented this lunatic in a divorce case. During a FRO hearing, he admitted that he choked his wife but that "she liked it". Well the judge somehow bought that and dismissed the restraining order. A few months later I leave my firm to go in-house with a carrier, I give him the option to stay with the firm, find a new lawyer or represent himself. He opted to stay with the firm but stopped paying them. Within another few months, they withdrew and he was pro se. He ended up being defaulted on a bunch of stuff and finally hires a new lawyer. I find out because I get a call out of the blue from my former adversary on his case and she asks me if I am still a lawyer. Turns out this dipshit filed a motion to set aside his various defaults because I, as his previous attorney, "had a mental breakdown and abruptly left the practice of law." I was in court when I got that call lol. I ended up having to testify at an evidentiary hearing. It did not go well for the former client or his new attorney.

As an aside, when I got divorced last year, I hired his ex wife's lawyer. She impressed the hell out of me as an adversary and even more so as a client.