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Plaintiffs Attorneys for Texas Request $25 Billion Fee Award in Tobacco Case 

Jump to full article: The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, 1998-12-08
Author: SUEIN L. HWANG Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET J

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In a closed-door meeting Saturday in New York, people who were present say, the Texas attorneys presented formulas to support their case that the five law firms that represented the state should be paid nearly 10 times the $2.6 billion they had asked for just last month. . . The lawyers representing the state of Texas are Walter Umphrey, Harold Nix, John O'Quinn, Wayne Reaud and John Eddie Williams.

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