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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.

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Article By: Benjamin Weiser
Publisher: The Washington Post
Published On: 12/8/1996

Don Barrett hailed from Lexington, Miss., and he liked to think of himself as a small town lawyer-"slow thinking and slow talking,  as he put it He was a stocky man, relaxed and unpretentious. He spoke frequently in Southern aphorisms, such as the one he used to describe his ongoing, quix:otic legal battles with the tobacco industry: "If you're going to fight the snake, kill the snake." In the plaintiffs' bar-the section of American lawyerdom that represents victims of airline crashes and sues big corporations when they sell faulty products-some of Barrett's dose friends were unabashedly rich, tlying between trials and settlement conferences in private jets. Barrett, however. was decidedly not rich. His basic problem was that he hadn't killed the snake. Since 1988, he had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying three smokers' cases against the tobacco industry. But he had not won a single dollar in damages. His failures sometimes threatened him with insolvency.