Complex sentence: Brigance seeks help for his defense team from sleazy divorce lawyer and close friend Harry Rex Vonner and from long-time liberal activist Lucien Wilbanks, a once-great civil rights lawyer who was disbarred for violence on a picket line.
Split into simpler sentences: Brigance seeks help for his defense team from sleazy divorce lawyer and close friend Harry Rex Vonner. He seeks guidance from long-time liberal activist Lucien Wilbanks, a once-great civil rights lawyer who was disbarred for violence on a picket line.