Everyone is ethically responsible for their own actions. As a software developer I don't work for ad companies. Why would a lawyer accept any client regardless of ethical concerns unless said lawyer is a scumbag?

Mullenweg tries hard -- actually too hard -- to portray himself as the good guy, it doesn't help when even posts striving hard to be neutral like https://gist.github.com/adrienne/aea9dd7ca19c8985157d9c42f7f... has this update

> Automattic releases a blog post in response to the lawsuit and announces that they have hired famous scumbag Neal Katyal