He marketed his legal services and business. This is free enterprise. I don’t like someone being arrested for it (even though it is a RAT).
Marketing of services is legal. What is illegal nearly everywhere is direct, personal solicitation, also known as ambulance chasing.
A lawyer, or in this case a lawyers helper, catches people when they are most vulnerable and sometimes talks them into doing things they would not normally.
Remember that it is the legal community itself who writes the law. An overwhelming majority of politicians are lawyers themselves.