Pitts Carr of Carr & Weatherby has recovered over $1 billion for his clients in cases in which he was lead counsel, and he has also defended some of the largest companies in the world, including Mobile Oil Corp. and PepsiCo. Not bad for the son of a well-digger in South Georgia who put himself through Duke University Law School by driving tractor-trailers on the weekends and started his own law firm in 1973.