31.   He is one of dozens of private attorneys who, working alone, represent hundreds of indigent clients each year.

32.   He took an interest in their case six months ago and hired a private attorney to review the evidence and fly in witnesses from remote mountainous areas.

33.   His lawyer, David Kapnor, a Legal Aid attorney, said his client would hire a private attorney and noted that Kemp would cooperate in any investigation.

34.   However, he likened the role of the private attorneys to the Pied Piper who was hired to chase the rats out of town.

35.   If the government chooses not to take on a whistleblower case, the whistleblower can pursue the matter with a private attorney.

36.   If the state lost, taxpayers would be stuck paying the private attorneys hired by Woods to represent the state.

37.   In addition, private attorneys are pursuing a proposed class-action federal lawsuit on behalf of all smokers.

38.   In coming weeks, dozens of lawsuits that are now being drafted will be filed, according to private attorneys representing the plaintiffs.

39.   In each of the states that have filed lawsuits, private attorneys are working the case on behalf of the state and paying for the costs of the litigation.

40.   Instead, poor defendants get a private attorney who is paid poorly by the state.