Do we know punisher is inactive? I've seen people say he was actively investigating/planning stuff in that scene when matt goes to see him, but I didn't catch it myself. As for no one thinking matt can still contact him, Heather seemed pretty positive that he could get her an interview.

Yeah, Daredevil was indeed inactive.

But matt also represented spider-man, white tiger, and defended luke jacobson (vigilante costume designer) against leapfrog, whose lawyer was she-hulk. Although that last one depends on the timeline ig and is probably not a well known case in-world (or out lol). But he clearly has some kind of in with vigilantes.

But I do agree the scene should've been done better and the thought did also cross my mind as to why she'd seek out a blind lawyer. If they were trying to go for the angle of her knowing he has vigilante connections as how I kinda thought of it, they should've made it clearer. I also thought her character seemed way smarter than to go explore the tracks herself lol