A Different Mess in Mississippi: the AG-Tort Lawyer Cabal
The Wall Street Journal Law Blog
February 25, 2008
By Dan Slater
Should state Attorneys General be able to outsource their legal work to for-profit tort lawyers, who then funnel a share of their winnings back to the AGs?
That’s the contentious (and rhetorical) question asked and answered by the WSJ editorial board today. The impetus for the piece is a recent bill passed in Mississippi, a state that has grown into a veritable laboratory for legal ethics fact-patterns.
