There are also attorneys who defend murderers and rapists and that's because in our system of justice even murderers and rapists are entitled to the best legal representation that they can get.
My father was not a mobster nor was my mother. He was a lawyer who happened to represent people who had some problems. And some of these people were also friends who would go to dinner and cocktail parties and come over to the house for dinner parties and to hang out by the pool on Sundays.