She probably doesn't have the equivalent of White House counsel. If she did, that may have prevented some of her problems in separating official duties with political activities, and also nip her ethics questions in the bud. However, I really would bet that her legal fees were mostly caused by commingling her official communications with her personal communicattions, which probably has made compliance with Freedom of Information Act requests a nightmare- trying to decide what to produce and what can be withheld. Counsel could have stopped that at the outset, if she were inclined to listen, but now that it's done, her personal problems are not within the scope of governmental legal advisor's functions, and, importantly, not subject to attorney client privilege.

Further, these FOIA problems don't vanish just because she quit. The Governor's office staff have a bigger problem without her onsite and involved, but they will probably try to get away with saying they don't "have" her "personal" e-mails or something like that.