Don't forget he first came to national attention defending Susan MacDougal. Both Geraldo and Dan Abrams have spoken approvingly of his defense in that case, as they opined it was a "political prosecution".
Also defended Roger Clinton in his DWI case. You can see the guy has a clintonian nature combined with cochranian tactics.
He has risen to the top of the evil lawyer industry, for the same reason that a particularly rotten piece of feces rises to the top of the septic tank.