Cutting your losses in cooking and lawyering

We have all had this happen when cooking, a disaster in the kitchen.  I had this recently happen, I was cooking some sweet potatoes, and made the mistake of over cooking.    Really, better word would be  burning the food.    I made the mistake of doing too many things at the same time, and not paying attention to the food, on the stove.   A classic no, no.   And, as a result, my food burned and I had to throw out the pot due to the burn on the bottom.

And, much like this, you need to keep an eye on your case if you are the client.   Lawyers do work hard on cases, but at times need their clients to contact them, and lawyers need to keep an eye on the case and send updates to the client. 

If you don't, you will get burned and from the lawyers perspective, you will get lose out on some important pieces of evidence, and if you are the client you might get burned by the case.

Then what do you do?  Take note, you can rescue many situations, but, sometimes you have to throw out the pot and start over.  Hopefully, this will not  be the case in your case.