FILE -In this April, 24, 2013 file photo, Senate Finance and Taxation - Education Committee member Sen. Hank Sanders, D-Selma, studies the proposed $5.7 billion education budget during a committee meeting at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala. A once prominent African-American law firm has disintegrated in a fight over money after helping black farmers win $1.2 billion in a discrimination case. Sanders says the Chestnut, Sanders and Sanders law firm in Selma was once among the nation’s 10 largest black law firms. Now he’s the only partner left practicing law. Sanders and his wife, attorney Faya Rose Sanders, are involved in a legal fight with the family of their late partner, J.L. Chestnut Jr., over how to divide the $5.2 million legal fee from the black farmers’ case. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)