You can choose to not represent a client in a civil suit if you don’t want to, though. You don’t HAVE to take on every case that comes across your desk. My grandfather’s second wife drained his accounts, fed him high dose benadryl, and attempted to sue the family in civil court and almost every lawyer in town rejected her as a client except the one that was known as “the sleazy lawyer” by all his associates.
(He would even add, in a hearing, the Sleazy Lawyer who owns Four Lexuses, so he knew)
So don’t give me that, I’ve seen it in action.
