Patsy Brumfield - NE MS Daily Journal Review

BOOK REVIEW: Scruggs book writers present historic context for downfall

For the rest of the world, which hasn’t hung on every legal moan connected with the judicial scandals surrounding former Mississippi mega-lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, a new book will offer the history and details on his fall from grace.

“Kings of Tort,” set for release Dec. 2, comes from political blogger Alan Lange of Jackson and retired assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Dawson of Oxford.

Dawson was the lead prosecutor in the first indictment against Scruggs and others for the 2007 attempted bribery of Circuit Judge Henry Lackey of Calhoun City.

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