This collection consists of records from the office of the Montana Attorney General related to cases handled bt the office. The case files (1947-1979) represented in the records range from the state litigating cases against illegal gambling operations to a class action lawsuit in which the state was a complainant, to a case dealing with reapportionment of representatives and the state being the respondent. The largest of all of these files is the class action lawsuit the state participated in against several pharmaceutical manufacturers in the matter of price fixing of the antibiotic tetracycline.

Also represented are what the office called "service files" (1977-1978), which are the files compiled by the office in the execution of its role of attorney for the various departments within the state government. The service files document complaints made against the departments, as well as how these complaints were handled by the office. At times the office took the lead in representing the departments, but others were handled by in-house attorneys. The rest of the records comprise the subject files (1967-1974). These files cover a variety of topics, including an easement request from the Montana Power Company, and several other similar files related to the Attorney General's seat on the state Land Board, another file regrarding the subject of purchasing, and yet another related to the sentence of an inmate in the Montana State Prison.

The materials consist of agreements, correspondence,environmental impact statements,invoices, legal briefs, legal motions, news clippings, printed materials, photographs, receipts,reports, and transcripts.