The Use of Monitors by State AGs – The Challenges of Multi-state in Today’s Litigation Environment

In Part 4, we consider the challenges for state AGs in today’s litigation environment. Of the AGs who participated in the tobacco litigation leading to the Master Settlement Agreement in 1998, only one AG, Tom Miller of Iowa, remains in office today. Most of today’s AGs never worked in an AG office before multi-state litigation was simply a fact of life. But although it may seem that multi-state litigation has been around forever, the reality is that it remains quite new, and it should come as no surprise that the processes around multi-state litigation continues to evolve.

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