Local bar associations are notoriously political and filled with cronyism. So there are lawyers in that location who are willing to kiss up to a judge who has been in the news. Wow, what a shocker.
And there are lawyers in that location more than willing to kiss up to a Probate judge who appoints them, their wives, children, and other assorted relatives to be guardians for the defenseless citizens who are fleeced of their lifetime accumulation of wealth, shipped off to a hospice to wrack up some Medicaid profits for the same legal establishment who runs them, and then dispensed with by starvation or an overdose.