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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.

MGM Grand to Finalize Settlement

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Article By: Rhonda L. Rundle
Publisher: Business Insurance
Published On: 5/9/1983

LAS VEGAS. Nev.—MGM Grand Hotels in will formalize on May 20 its settlement of all but a few of the remaining 450 liability lawsuits stemming from a 1980 fire at its Las Vegas hotel.

All but about 40 of the 112 other defendants sued in the fire litigation also are participating in the largest out-of-court tort settlement in U.S. history.

More than 1,350 fire victims and surviving family members will share almost $140 million paid by MGM Grand and the other defendants into a settlement fund held in a hank escrow account.

-The money isn't all there yet, but that's how much is projected based on actual settlements and settlements in principle,- said a spokesperson for the court.

MGM Grand is expected to make a second $25 million payment to the escrow account 21 days following delivery by the Plaintiffs' Legal Committee of final paperwork on the settlements.

The hotel-casino company will complete its $75 million contribution to the master settlement with a final $25 million payment in two years. It made its first payment early this year.

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