Like former high school football stars in middle age, plaintiffs' attorneys, who make their money by taking a percentage of the damage awards to clients, have been trying to relive their glory days of tobacco settlements. Back in the 1990s, five Texas lawyers earned $3.3 billion, a firm in Tampa scored $3.4 billion and a Mississippi attorney made an estimated $1.6 billion.
The lawyers' playbook: team up with state attorneys general (AGs) to sue businesses.
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