Lawyers aren't a cohesive group.
There are a great many of them.
If there's money to be made, they'd
push their own mother down stairs
to beat other sharks to the case.
When government is the party going
after the little guy, you want them
to also be the defense? Oh, how could
that possibly go wrong.
Strong your faith in government is!
Well, if the government doesn't defend the little guy, then a bunch of little guys can band together and form a new government. That's happened before in history.