This guy, he previously threatened @pinkmeth over on Twitter to "make an exception to not beating women" if it turned out that @pinkmeth was a woman, there was also a tweet about his backyard, a gun and a shovel. Being the class act that he is, he now appears to have removed them, is it even legal to make those kinds of threats in the first place?
IANAL, but no, I don't believe death threats are legal.
Preemptory death threats are part of the path to disbarment. I hope defendants can nail those tweets to him in court.
Possibly, though there is an alleged victim, Shelby Conklin, of the pinkmeth site involved in the case. It isn't clear if she found the lawyer or if the lawyer found her though.