Cleaning Up: the Story Behind the Biggest Legal Bonanza of Our Time
- List Price: $25.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Free Press
- Publish date: 01/01/2005
Description:
When the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground, spewing millions of gallons of crude oil off the south coast of Alaska, Brian O'Neill sprang into action. A young maverick lawyer and a brash idealist from an unusually blue-chip firm, O'Neill assembled an expert legal team and geared up to do battle with Exxon in the courts.
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After five years of siege warfare, O'Neill and his team won one of the greatest bonanzas in legal history. But along the way careers and marriages were destroyed, a juror contemplated suicide, and the total cost to Exxon came to over $5 billion. High-stakes damage suits will never be the same.
Thanks to unparalleled access to key players, including O'Neill and Joe Hazelwood, captain of the Exxon Valdez, David Lebedoff offers a gripping narrative and anatomy of one of the most riveting civil trials ever.
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