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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.

Taming a Mass Torts Monster

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Article By: Peter Carbonara
Publisher: The American Lawyer
Published On: 9/1/1989

It was hot and almost airlessly humid on May 9 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Most of the businessmen along the city's "Golden Mile"-a grim strip of banking and finance office towers-had their shirtsleeves rolled up and their collars undone. Norman Kleinberg, however, kept his jacket on; he didn't know when he might have to step back into court. Kleinberg. 43, a partner at New York's Hughe's Hubbard & Reed, was one of about 30 lawyers standing around in the mezzanine lobby of San Juan's Citicorp Tower. inside was the makeshift federal courtroom that since early March has been the main site of the massive case stemming from the 1986 fire that killed 97 people at the San Juan Dupont Plaza Hotel.