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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.

Tactics Include Tough Talk, Victim Hotline

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Article By: Wayne E. Green
Publisher: Wall Street Journal
Published On: 9/28/1988

Officials from the State Bar of Texas didn't waste any time.

Within hours after a Delta Air Lines plane crashed in Dallas on Aug. 31, they had flown to the site, determined to stop personal-injury lawyers from soliciting victims as clients. They advised victims to go slow in hiring legal counsel. They announced they were "monitoring" early-arriving lawyers. And they vowed to crack down on unethical behavior.

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