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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.

Louisiana High Court Upholds Flood Exclusion

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Publisher: GHW
Published On: 4/7/2008

John Houghtaling was widely quoted in the media regarding the Louisiana Supreme Court's ruling that a common homeowners flood exclusion does in fact exclude damage caused by a levee break. "The ruling has multi-billion dollar implications," Houghtaling told local and national media. The law firm of Gauthier, Houghtaling and Williams represents homeowners and argued on behalf of the state Attorney General's office when the case was before the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal.

La. Court Sides With Insurers in Katrina Suit, USA Today, April 7, 2008

State Supreme Court Sides with Insurance Companies, New Orleans Times-Picayune, April 8, 2008