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John Houghtaling and Chef Scott Boswell of Stella! appeared on WVUE on August 20 to promote a September 14 barrier island fundraising dinner featuring world-renowned chefs Thomas Keller, Daniel Boulud and Jerome Bocuse. Proceeds will go to the Barrier Island Reclamation and Development Society and the Bocuse D'Or Foundation.
GHW is pursuing a case against Baja, Inc. alleging that leaking gasoline from a Mini Bike it manufactures caused a fire which resulted in severe burn injuries to a young child.
Gauthier, Houghtaling and Williams made possible the shipment of nine endangered Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles impacted by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to a new home at Sea World in Orlando.
The National Bar Association and IMPACT named James Williams, a partner and head of litigation in Gauthier Houghtaling and Williams one of the Nation's Best Advocates: 40 Lawyers Under 40.
Attorney Brian Houghtaling took his boat into the Gulf waters on April 29 to survey the growing oil slick.

Lawyers, Guns and Money

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Article By: Matt Labash
Publisher: The Weekly Standard
Published On: 2/1/1998

Wendell Gauthier loves to smile. Sure, the most renowned class-action lawyer in New Orleans possesses many other trademarks. He has full-bodied Atticus Finch hair, and he's tailored like a mogul from Milan. With a soft Cajun accent, he's a fount of country-lawyer malapropisms (he says his old friend Edwin Edwards, the frequently indicted former governor of Louisiana, has a "photogenic mind"). But Gauthier's defining characteristic is the infectious, perpetual, coprophagous grin. Indeed, an opposing lawyer once objected to a judge that Wendell Gauthier smiled too often. With his track record, who wouldn't?