[PSUscaper]

Maybe a special 'lawyer contract' should be written up with a special pay-as-you-go arrangement. If the client is a lawyer, simply state that at the start of every day, a payment for x% of the project is do. For smaller jobs (1 or 2 days), tell them you only start with a 75% downpayment, and jack the price up so that 75% is the price you would charge others.

What a bunch of slime balls people in this world are.

One thing that I do, that no one ever even reads, and that, quite frankly I don't even know if it would hold up in court, is in the contract I have a line that states 'all job materials, meaning plants, bricks, lights, transformers, muclh, stone, trees, shrubs, flowers, and wall stone, installed by Pennscapes remain the property of Pennscapes until final payment is received. If final payment is not received, Pennscapes reserves the right to enter the property and remove all materials used. If final payment is received after the removal, all materials will be returned and installed at the same initial price as the previous contract'

Wordy, but I like it as it makes people think. So far, no one has not signed the contract.