Opposite of beleaguered

Solution 1:

buoyed

to sustain or encourage; keep from sinking

-Dictionary.com

I was buoyed by a throng of lawyers.

A style suggestion: :

I was buoyed by a pod of lawyers.

pod describes a school of dolphins. In the wild and around the world, Dolphins have been observed supporting weaker or sick members to keep them from drowning.

Solution 2:

I was ensconced by lawyers.

OED

to ensconce (v.)

3. transitive. To establish in a place or position for the purpose:

b. of security, comfort, ‘snugness’, etc. Chiefly reflexive.

1847 Ld. Lindsay Sketches Hist. Christian Art I. 121 A vine, emblematical of the church..the four doctors of the Latin church ensconced among its branches.

1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story II. viii. 73 His guest had ensconced himself in Forman's old study.

And

2001 Contemporary Black Men's Fiction and Drama edited by Keith Clark What is fundamental to the voice is that he find some deeper love to come into , while ensconced by his native black community

2013 Music and Levels of Narration in Film: Steps Across the Border Guido Heldt Tonio Feuersinger ( Luis Trenker ) lives in South Tyrol, ensconced by the traditional world of his mountain community,

Solution 3:

I suggest

bolster verb [T] (SUPPORT)

to support something, or make something stronger: “The UN is sending more troops to bolster the peacekeepers.”

[Cambridge dictionary](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bolster‘

And hence we can say the VIP was bolstered by his lawyers and bodyguards etc

The word has physical overtones as well as conceptual use as in bolstering an opinion.