Or the client has committed fraud and lied to the attorney about it.
No, if she did it before she told the attorney, he could still take the fee. And the attorney shouldn’t have to worry about future malpractice claims. “If she had leveled with me, she wouldn’t have ended up where she did”.
I think that would put any attorney in a bad place. The lawyer can’t help the client if the client is lying even to them.