Former presidential candidate John Edwards is scrambling to cobble together a defense team as federal prosecutors raise conflict-of-interest concerns about his counsel of choice.

Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice is the latest firm to drop Edwards as a client as the former U.S. senator gets set for trial next month on charges he violated federal campaign finance laws. The trial has already been delayed several times.

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