High-profile trial attorney Richard Scruggs, who gained prominence battling the insurance and tobacco industries, on Friday pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a judge.
The case which he pleaded guilty to in U.S. District Court in Oxford, Miss., involved a legal action in which the Scruggs law firm was suing an attorney in a dispute over $26.5 million in attorneys' fees from a Hurricane Katrina-related settlement with State Farm.
Mr. Scruggs was charged with five others, including his son David Zachary Scruggs, with a bribe plot involving $50,000.
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