Lawyers have to follow their clients' wishes, and you may be underestimating how nice Vic is. Imagine being the guy who tells Ty Beard and the Amazons not to go all out on the offensive.
His demeanor at the post-lawsuit cons alone is amazing. If I were in his shoes, I could hold up fine and fight for myself; but there's no way in hell I could show up and be nice, smiling, caring, and compassionate to a thousand strangers for days at a time. I don't have that in me. Most of us here would go the Lenny Bruce route instead, given a stage and a mic during this kind of stressful, continuing attack.
Someone else said it previously, but Vic needs to come out of this with enough of a cash settlement to handle the worst case scenario of never working as a VA again. I just hope he has that as his personal goal as well, and not mere vindication.