Victims' advocate Judy Buckles once said, "Madison County is the best when it comes to representing asbestos victims and their families." On Wednesday she filed a legal malpractice suit against two of the county's busiest asbestos litigators. Buckles, whose husband died from mesothelioma in 1997, alleges her former lawyers entered into secret agreements with asbestos defendants to settle claims for absurd predetermined amounts of money when the "reasonable value" of mesothelioma claims were worth millions of dollars. Asbestos lawyers Hopkins Goldenberg -- now known as Goldenberg, Heller, Antognoli, Rowland, Short & Gori -- John Simmons, William Miller and SimmonsCooper LLC were named as defendants in the lawsuit filed July 12 in Madison County Circuit Court. Buckles is represented by Roy Dripps of the Lakin Law Firm of Wood River.