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MIAMI - JUNE 3: Mississippi trial lawyer Richard Scruggs poses for a photographer during a stopover in Miami, Florida, en route to a family vacation in the Florida Keys on Tuesday, June 3, 2003. Scruggs earned more than $1 billion in fees for helping U.S. states win a $246 billion settlement from cigarette makers in 1998. The windfall whetted his appetite for a new challenge. (Photo by Mark Elias/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

MIAMI - JUNE 3:  Mississippi trial lawyer Richard Scruggs poses for a photographer during a stopover in Miami, Florida, en route to a family vacation in the Florida Keys on Tuesday, June 3, 2003. Scruggs earned more than $1 billion in fees for helping U.S. states win a $246 billion settlement from cigarette makers in 1998. The windfall whetted his appetite for a new challenge. (Photo by Mark Elias/Bloomberg via Getty Images)