You wouldn’t think there’d be a lot of complaining about a shortage of lawyers, but public officials and others embroiled in Chicago’s ongoing Hired Truck scandal are concerned about just that.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported that, with 36 people charged and 23 guilty pleas in the federal investigation so far, those involved are having a hard time finding experienced lawyers who can take on their cases.

The Sun-Times said that some of the best lawyers were taken early by city officials who are yet to be charged and hope they never will be.

The trouble is, once a lawyer from a firm is representing someone involved in the investigation, other lawyers at that firm are discouraged from representing clients involved in the same investigation for fear of conflict between clients.

However, not everybody agrees with the idea that there’s a shortage.

Tom Breen, a defense attorney for Victor Reyes, a former mayoral aide who has been mentioned in connection with the scandal but has yet to be charged, told the Sun-Times that there are plenty of good lawyers still available.

“There are many good lawyers around,” he said. “For me to take a position that the good ones are locked up, I just don’t buy that.”