The contingency fee counsel issue is a big deal in many states.  The politics of it are rather unique for political and policy reasons.  From Nola.com:

For the second week in a row, Attorney General Buddy Caldwell asked a House Committee to delay action on his proposal to allow the state to hire outside attorneys on a contingency fee basis.

Caldwell said he will spend that week continuing to talk to representatives of the oil, gas and chemical industries about his revised version of House Bill 758 by Rep. Herbert Dixon, D-Alexandria.

The attorney general said some of those parties have not seen the new version, which he unveiled last week, because it has not been approved by the committee and thus does not appear in the Legislature’s online public database.

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