It is with defense lawyers who want to keep their licenses.
No.
For big dollars you usually have a blustery defenses.
This smacks of a lawyer being awakened from a deep sleep with a phone call and a hastily written check by a rich daddy.
"Jones would not say exactly why he was hired
I'm sorry, this just struck me as funny. Is this the usual state of things with lawyers?"
He's being hired by the kid because the kid smells money and so does this lawyer. They will sue ABC for accidently putting the kid's name out there in cyberspace where it was picked up by the blogger who outed him. That's why the lawyer.
Perhaps this former Page hired Jones because when the FBI come calling, his lawyer can tell him not to talk? Perhaps some Dem. operative is paying for the attorney?
Jones probably called the jerk and offered him his services for free....Cough.