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8 Dec 2007, 12:24 pm
  So this correspondence would tend to support a theory that Balducci did not begin cooperating with the FBI and prosecutors -- if in fact he did so prior to his recent plea agreement -- until after August 1.As I have mentioned, the otherwise seemingly inexplicable "extra $10,000" payment that Balducci allegedly told Dickie Scruggs was needed to bribe the judge is evidence that Balducci was cooperating at that… [read post]
7 Dec 2007, 10:56 am
Dickie Scruggs of Oxford arranged a $40,000 bribe for Lafayette County Circuit Court Judge Henry Lackey, according to an indictment from a federal grand jury. [read post]
7 Dec 2007, 6:46 am
Things you're missing if you're still not reading my (and Ted's) other blog: intensive coverage of the Dickie Scruggs indictment and its fallout; new trial lawyer group fighting with AAJ over ATLA acronym; ten state AGs object to provision in... [read post]
7 Dec 2007, 4:27 am
As we recently reported, Dickie Scruggs, along with his son and other colleagues, were recently indicted on charges in a judicial bribery case. [read post]
6 Dec 2007, 4:11 pm
Earlier today, one of Dickie Scruggs’s Mississippi lawyers, William Quin of the Langston Law Firm, filed a motion for pro hac vice on behalf of John Keker, the San Francisco powerhouse defense lawyer whom Scruggs has tapped to fight his battles in both Alabama and Mississippi. [read post]
6 Dec 2007, 8:50 am
The indictment of Dickie Scruggs (pictured) isn’t the only new twist facing Gulf Coast homeowners in their battle with insurers over Katrina claims. [read post]
6 Dec 2007, 8:50 am
And while Dickie Scruggs has gotten all the headlines (unwanted ones as of late), State Farm’s lead outside counsel has orchestrated the insurer’s litigation strategy largely from behind the scenes. [read post]
6 Dec 2007, 6:52 am
In other words, if it had been a SOPHISTICATED bribery scheme, then, yeah, sure, he could see Dickie doing that. [read post]
6 Dec 2007, 3:05 am
Now they've filed an appellate brief with the Second Circuit to confirm it (pp. 16-21 of brief);The Cavalcade of Risk is up at Managed Care Matters - a round-up of insurance blogs and risky stuff;A fountain of information on the Dickie Scruggs indictment can be found at Overlawyered and at the Insurance Coverage Law Blog;Scott Greenfield of Simple Justice fame is interviewed at Kevin O'Keefe's Real Lawyers Have Blogs and reveals an essential truth about blogging: The harder… [read post]
6 Dec 2007, 1:36 am
" So this e-mail above by Backstrom, a lawyer in the Scruggs Law Firm and one of the indicted alleged bribery conspirators, says that Hood's interest in the criminal investigation of State Farm was solely based on the "insider" Rigsby sisters -- who after doing a massive copy job of Renfroe documents quit and immediately went to work for Scruggs as consultants at annual salaries of $150,000 each, with no specified duties -- and that in Backstrom's… [read post]
5 Dec 2007, 3:45 pm
Here’s what’s going down: The bribe that Dickie Scruggs (pictured) and four others allegedly tried to pay a judge was to gain a favorable ruling in a lawsuit concerning the divvying up of $26.5 million in legal fees from Katrina-related litigation involving Mr. [read post]
5 Dec 2007, 10:18 am
The Insurance Coverage Blog has had many posts (e.g.) about the story of Dickie Scruggs. [read post]
5 Dec 2007, 10:15 am
(Keker, who’s also busy representing Dickie Scruggs (here) didn’t comment; neither did Bonds.) [read post]
5 Dec 2007, 10:14 am
.' One of the more unlikely figures to have emerged as a prominent voice on the saga in Mississippi involving famed plaintiffs lawyer Richard 'Dickie' Scruggs is an insurance lawyer in Portland, Ore., who's never set foot in the state.Somehow, in between his day job as a law-firm partner and his night job as a husband and father to three young children, David Rossmiller blogs about insurance. [read post]
5 Dec 2007, 5:31 am
The week since the indictment of Mississippi tort lawyer Dickie Scruggs and four other defendants for allegedly trying to bribe a state court judge to rule in their favor in a dispute over $26.5 million in attorney's fees has had... [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 11:09 am
The Wall Street Journal has more on the Dickie Scruggs indictment for allegedly attempting to bribe a Mississippi state judge in the Katrina insurance litigation -- It's Party Time for Mr. [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 9:20 am
  Walter Olson of Overlawyered asks about the Dickie Scruggs story, and what can I say, except that it belongs on the list. [read post]