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Opinion  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
March 21, 2012

LegalNewsline picks up on Jim Hood’s hiring of Mike Moore to handle BP conflict

Hood hires former AG, former SC justice to handle BP claims Hood told The Associated Press Tuesday that he has hired Mike Moore, a Democrat who served as attorney general from 1988 to 2004, and Reuben Anderson, the first African-American justice to serve on the state’s high court. The attorney general also confirmed to the…
Opinion  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
March 21, 2012

Fees in Mike Moore’s contract to sue BP on behalf of Jim Hood are not enumerated

Former MS Attorney General Mike Moore and current MS Attorney General Jim Hood have executed a contract to allow Moore (and attorney raft picks to be named later) to settle with BP over an as yet unfiled claim on the BP oil spill. Interestingly, there is no specific financial arrangement. Moore and Hood contractually agree…