Plaintiffs' Lawyers in a Bitter Dispute Over Fees in Gulf Oil Spill Cases.

Lawyers routinely battle each other, representing the conflicting interests of plaintiffs and defendants. But lately in the vast tangle of federal litigation over last year's Deepwater Horizon oil spill, lawyers on the same side -- for the plaintiffs -- are fighting one another. The current conflict pits members of the steering committee and their allies against a dissident faction of lawyers, many of whom are looking to settle their cases before trial. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]