High-Profile Trial Lawyer Agrees to Guilty Plea
The New York Times
March 21, 2008
By Jonathan D. Glater
Melvyn I. Weiss on Thursday became the latest prominent — to some, notorious — trial lawyer to agree to plead guilty to federal criminal charges, acknowledging his role in a scheme to make hidden side payments to plaintiffs in class-action lawsuits filed by his firm, Milberg Weiss. Some of the best-known lawyers in the country are now headed for prison. Last week, Richard F. Scruggs, who squeezed hundreds of billions of dollars from tobacco companies, pleaded guilty to trying to bribe a state court judge in Mississippi.
