Two Houston law firms prospecting for potential clients in Mississippi in the wake of the 2010 BP PLC Deepwater Horizon drilling rig catastrophe have encountered their own setback in terms of their litigation strategy.

Defendant Michael Pohl, individually and d/b/a the Law Office of Michael Pohl, and defendant Jimmy Williamson and Jimmy Williamson P.C., recently failed to convince a Mississippi federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought against them by a group of public relations professionals whom the attorneys had enlisted to round up possible clients after the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

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