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Article: Who's Afraid of Dickie Scruggs? Answer: corporate America. With powerful friends and a novel legal strategy, this smooth Southern litigator helped bring Big Tobacco to its knees. Now he's going after HMOs. Critics say he's abusing the system to get rich. But Scruggs says he's simply doing well by doing good.(Business)
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- December 6, 1999
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The paparazzi start shooting as Al Pacino, dressed entirely in black, ambles down the red carpet into Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theater for the gala premiere of "The Insider.'' But in the theater lobby, it's a less familiar face that is attracting a crowd. Lawyer Richard Scruggs is under the bright lights of television cameras, and reporters want to know about his role in the events that inspired the gripping movie about a whistle-blower in the tobacco industry. "How close is the movie to what really happened, Mr. Scruggs?" they ask. Inside the theater, before the lights dim, Scruggs continues to work the crowd, chatting up actor Christopher Plummer and director Michael Mann. ...
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