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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.
Attorneys Sean Greenwood and Pat McGinnis were named to H Texas Magazine's list of Top Professionals in Houston.
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.

Profiles in Power: The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America

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Publisher: The National Law Journal
Published On: 4/28/1997

Wendell H. Gauthier

54, of Metairie, La.'s Gauthier, Downing,

LaBarre, Beiser & Dean

CONSIDERED A PIONEER in mass torts, playing a critical role in many of the biggest early cases, including the Union Carbide gas disaster litigation, as well as the fires at the MGM Grand and the San Juan Dupont Plaza hotels, in both of which, as lead plaintiffs' counsel, he won settlements of more than $200 million; created the plaintiffs' bar's attack on the American tobacco industry after the death by cancer of his best friend and is credited with getting lawyers who hated each other to unite against a common defendant; continues as chairman of the Castano class action committee and runs the coordinated plaintiffs' effort in this litigation, including its center for research in New Orleans; also involved in numerous other class actions and products liability lawsuits; a lead counsel in the breast implant action against Dow Chemical Co. in Louisiana; last month, won the largest verdict ever in a prod· ucts liability action in Louisiana, $58 million against ADT Security Systems, a fire protection services company, over the fire that destroyed the New Orleans Fairgrounds race track in 1993.