Drama in the legal profession that could rival a passage from a John Grisham novel: a West Virginia personal injury lawyer throwing one of his own under the bus.

With reference to a law on the books this summer, William Druckman told the Charleston Daily Mail he doesn’t “like to read about a $10 million burger suit,” like the one filed by one of his trial bar brethren Tim Houston over an alleged allergic reaction to a slice of cheese.

“It’s embarrassing,” Druckman declared, which explains House Judiciary chairwoman Carrie Webster’s carrying his water to keep dollar amounts under the radar when going after deep-pocketed defendants.

Druckman compared the multi-million-dollar Mountain State Quarter Pounder case to the $54 million lost pair of trousers lawsuit against an immigrant couple’s dry cleaners in Washington, D.C.

Webster tells the Daily Mail she doesn’t want West Virginia caught with its pants down, hoping her bill will change “the icy perception,” as the newspaper put it, of the state’s court system.

“It’s a baby step,” Webster said of her bill. But it takes a giant leap to keeping those huge payouts to plaintiffs under wraps until it’s too late for anyone to notice. In reality, this is lipstick on a shark bill that will only hide personal injury lawyer greed.