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Brommers-
Not allowed to pick and choose clients.
Really? That's interesting. So you're not allowed to consider 'reputational damage', or is such a thing not as relevant in light of not being able to choose clients?
(for example, finance here, we have a long list of clients (countries even) we can't deal with due to potential reputational problems).
christianSpaceman
My very limited 3rd hand experience of lawyers,
(a business contact found me to be a suitable listener),
is that no matter how hopeless a Case,
as long as the lawyer is convinced the Client can pay,
the lawyer will pursue the claim or mount a defence.
[Apologies to @Brommers].
I would suggest that the original team of lawyers who were representing Trump in his 2nd Impeachment trial, were unable to convince themselves that the funds Trump claimed to have were in all ways 'clean', (not just grafted recent donations, contraventions of the Emoluments Clause, or from sources likely to be under investigation by the SDNY).
Trump therefore needed lawyers with less scruples.
Phone calls were made, favours were called in, and enter David Schoen!