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GHW hopes to encourage young high school students at St. Augustine in New Orleans to follow in the footsteps of Charles R. Jones, the first African-American male to ascend to Chief Judge of the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal. GHW funded the "2012 Chief Judge Charles R. Jones Scholarship" to be awarded to a deserving St. Augustine student.
The late Wendell Gauthier’s fight to expose Big Tobacco’s coverup of the addictive properties of nicotine is a significant part of the story of Addiction Incorporated, a docudrama about Victor DeNoble a whistleblower and research scientist at a major tobacco company, who revealed a fact that the industry had been denying for years: that cigarettes were addictive.
GHW attorneys John Houghtaling, James Williams and Celeste Gauthier were inducted into Loyola University’s Society of St. Ignatius.
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GHW partner James Williams participated in a roundtable discussion entitled, "Closing the Wealth Gap: Utilizing Minority Owned Businesses as Vehicles for Job Creation and Economic Recovery," on Capitol Hill on September 22, 2011.

Gauthier Fight Against Tobacco In Film

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Publisher: GHW
Published On: 1/3/2012

The late Wendell Gauthier's fight to expose Big Tobacco's coverup of the addictive properties of nicotine is a significant part of the story of Addiction Incorporated, a docudrama about Victor DeNoble a whistleblower and research scientist at a major tobacco company, who revealed a fact that the industry had been denying for years: that cigarettes were addictive.

DeNoble worked closely with Wendell Gauthier, the founder of the predecessor law firm of Gauthier, Houghtaling and Williams, who is widely remembered as the mastermind behind a class action lawsuit that unearthed documents proving that cigarette manufacturers were aware of the addictive nature of nicotine.  The case resulted in the landmark $206 billion Castano settlement and restrictions on cigarette advertising and marketing.

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National Public Radio, 'Addiction Inc.': Big Tobacco, Keeping Us Hooked.