It seems that the FBI is getting pretty good at raiding law offices in Mississippi. From the Clarion Ledger:
FBI agents went inside the office this morning of Booneville lawyer Joey Langston, an attorney for multimillionaire Mississippi lawyer trial lawyer Dickie Scruggs.
“They are executing a search warrant,” said Deborah Madden, spokeswoman for the FBI in Jackson.[...]
A truck could be seen outside Langston’s office.
Of course, since I’m in kind of a political mood today, I suppose it would be semi-appropriate for me to speculate on whether pundits will seek to draw any connections between the trial-lawyer circus in Mississippi with any other prominent trial lawyers. For example, back in 2004, 20/20 seemed to enjoy drawing comparisons between Scruggs and Edwards. From Fair.org:
“Today, the trial lawyers may be the most powerful profession in America,” Stossel explained. “We always hear about how they help the little guy. But we rarely hear about the unintended consequences of what they do. And they can be nasty. With John Edwards potentially a heartbeat away from the presidency, we ought to take a look at what his most passionate supporters really do.”
With that, Stossel moved on to profiling Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, a prominent attorney, with “If Edwards is effective, this man must be super-effective,” all that’s offered by way of transition. Stossel immediately found a way to link Scruggs and Edwards: “Of course, the money for Scruggs’ planes and the millions Edwards made comes from someone, and that someone is you, the consumer.”