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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.
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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 Settlement Irks Co-Defendants

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Article By: Rhonda L. Rundle
Publisher: Business Insurance
Published On: 4/11/1983

LAS VEGAS N. The fate of 112 companies that have been sued in the MGM hotel fire litigation hangs on the hotel-casino company's decision on whether to accept a court proved settlement plan.

But, no matter what MGM decides, these co defendants will not be celebrating. Many of them feel that the settlement plan has been ramrodded down their throats.

The prohibitive cost of a six-to-nine-month trial, on top of thousands—in some cases millions—of dollars already paid to attorneys over the past year, is virtually forcing defendants to ante up the full limits of their insurance coverage to settle claims even when they think they have no Liability for the fire.

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