You would like to concentrate on fees that lawyers receive from payments paid out to victims. The Catholic Church has spent millions of dollars on their own lawyers to defend their pedophile priests and their reputations. Most victims of clergy abuse went first to the Church with their complaints about abusive priests.And how were they ministered to by the Church? They were called liars, out to destroy the Church. Some were counter sued. The sexual abuse destroyed families, mine being one of them, because parents could not believe that Father X sexually molested them in the sacristy of the Church. What we wanted at the beginning when we thought we were the only one was for the Church to remove the perpetrators from their access to children so that more children were not abused. What did we get in return? Priests were moved to new parishes where they were free to molest children again. Victims were paid for their vow of silence. Yes it was the Church who first instigated payments.