Credit steve carmody / Michigan Radio Attorneys are asking a judge to set aside nearly a third of the proposed $641 million civil settlement tied to the Flint water crisis for lawyer fees. They made the request in a court filing this week. The State of Michigan and the city of Flint, along with a Flint engineering firm and a Flint hospital, agreed to put up the money as part of an agreement to settle legal damage claims tied to the city’s water crisis. Created by the ill-fated decision to switch the city of Flint drinking water source in 2014 as a way to save the city money, the water crisis exposed the city’s nearly 100,000 residents to drinking water contaminated with lead and other contaminants. During the same period, a Legionnaires' disease outbreak killed at least a dozen people in Genesee County.