Lawyers accused of mishandling damage claims from the 2010 BP oil spill are expected to testify today before a federal judge.
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier is scheduled to hear the matter.
The lawyers are at the center of a 2013 probe conducted by former FBI director Louis Freeh.
Claims of fraud are linked to a settlement of civil litigation that following the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig disaster.
The lawyers set to testify today are expected to challenge the report's findings.
Freeh says some lawyers with the settlement program acted improperly and — in some instances — illegally.
