Katrina litigation update/Trailer Lawyer update, May 13

This recent Anita Lee story in the Sun Herald tells how hundreds of former clients of the disqualified Katrina(less) Litigation Group have migrated, at the suggestion of KLG lawyer Don Barrett, to the Texas tobacco litigation firm Umphrey-Provost. You can see the Barrett letter to clients at this post I wrote earlier. Some other former clients, as I mentioned recently, chose not to get new lawyers but instead to settle their claims. Now, let's look at what is happening with Ex rel. Rigsby, also called the False Claims Act case, also called the Qui Tam, but which I like to call, simply, the Trailer Lawyer case. Late last week State Farm (or in the lexicon of suspected Trailer Lawyer Chip Robertson, "Snake Farm") filed a rebuttal to the latest Trailer Lawyer filing