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Fitch JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) – Private lawyers, some of whom contributed to her campaign, stand to gain financially from Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s new lawsuit against 3M, DuPont and other companies over chemicals known as PFAS. Fitch and three private firms filed their case Dec. 17 in a multidistrict litigation proceeding in South Carolina federal court. Those firms are headlined by Dallas’ Baron & Budd, a firm whose lawyers were among many in the trial bar to support the Republican Fitch’s 2019 campaign to replace Democrat Jim Hood. A lot of those firms handle securities class actions and see the Mississippi public employees pension system as a potential client. ....