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Attorneys' Fees: The Source of Many Headaches for Dickie Scruggs 

This situation is this: Scruggs has been accused of conspiring to bribe a Mississippi judge in a lawsuit involving a fee-dispute with former cohorts. But it’s not the first fee-dispute of Scruggs’s career. Far from it. For years, he battled two former colleagues from his asbestos days, and after his mammoth tobacco wins of the late 1990s, he squabbled with a handful of folks over fees.

Some, like Alwyn Luckey and Roberts Wilson, fought him tooth-and-nail. Others, like Pete Johnson and Michael T. Lewis, opted for less litigious routes. I “decided I’d rather spend whatever time I have alive at peace and not in court fighting for money,” explained Johnson, who claims that Scruggs promised him 10% of the legal fees from big tobacco, then reneged.

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