Cleaning up : the story behind the biggest legal bonanza of our time

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Cleaning up : the story behind the biggest legal bonanza of our time

Title remainder

the story behind the biggest legal bonanza of our time

Statement of responsibility

David Lebedoff

Creator

• Lebedoff, David

Author

• Lebedoff, David

Subject

• Aardolie
• Alaska
• Alaska -- Prince William Sound Region
• Exxon Corporation
• Exxon Corporation
• Exxon Corporation -- Trials, litigation, etc
• Exxon Shipping Company
• Exxon Shipping Company -- Trials, litigation, etc
• Exxon Valdez
• Exxon Valdez
• Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (Alaska : 1989)
• Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Alaska, 1989
• Havarie
• Havarie
• Hazelwood, Joseph Jeffrey, 1946-
• Hazelwood, Joseph Jeffrey, 1946- -- Trials, litigation, etc
• 1989
• Liability for marine accidents -- Alaska -- Cases
• Liability for oil pollution damages
• Liability for oil pollution damages -- Alaska | Prince William Sound Region
• Oil spills
• Oil spills -- Alaska -- Cases
• Oil spills -- Alaska | Prince William Sound
• Oil spills -- Law and legislation
• Oil spills -- Law and legislation -- Alaska
• Pacific Ocean -- Prince William Sound
• Prozess
• Prozess
• Trials, litigation, etc
• Umweltschaden
• Umweltschaden
• Waterverontreiniging
• Liability for marine accidents
• Aansprakelijkheid

Genre

• Trials, litigation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

• When the fishermen of coastal Alaska took on the Exxon Corporation in federal court, it proved to be one of the most spectacular trials of all time. They succeeded thanks to Brian O'Neill, the brilliant, young, charismatic, fiercely ambitious litigator who was born to make his mark on legal history. Dressed in cowboy boots, jeans, and a flannel shirt, O'Neill had made a name for himself in pro bono environmental law while running circles around his gray-suited colleagues. When he heard about the Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound, O'Neill pounced, knowing this was the opportunity of a lifetime. Within weeks he and a hand-picked team of zealous associates had set up shop in Alaska, hot on the trail of one of corporate America's most daunting leviathans
• Cleaning Up takes us behind the scenes to recount what was whispered in the hallways of O'Neill's blue-chip Minnesota law firm, and what was said behind the closed doors of the jury deliberations, where stubbornness and extreme emotional distress almost caused a mistrial, and where the verdict in the world's biggest drunk-driving case was reached without finding that the driver was actually drunk. Now, for the first time, you will know what all of these people knew, when they knew it, and how they reacted to it in the three-ring circus of American litigation

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

346.798

Index

no index present

LC call number

KF228.E98

LC item number

L43 1997

Literary form

non fiction