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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (8826)	8/22/2005 9:47:06 AM
From: scion	Respond to of 12465

Prescient - Policy Review, Winter 1991 Sue City: The Case Against the Contingency Fee In Texas, where the contingency-fee industry is unusually well developed, it is having a profound effect on commercial litigation. Texas lawyer John O'Quinn may represent a one-man wave of the future. His full-page Yellow Pages ad, as quoted in a Wall Street Journal report, says he is dedicated to "helping injured people obtain cash damages" and promises an "attorney on call 24 hours a day." State bar officials have accused him of using runners to acquire injury cases. What makes O'Quinn an interesting and apparently a very, very rich man is that he also applies his personal injury case methods -- appealing to populist resentment -- to otherwise routine disputes between businesses, with astonishing success. His most startling victory came in 1988 when a jury awarded $ 600 million to one of his clients, an Ohio natural-gas producer, in a contract dispute with the giant Tenneco Corporation. walterolson.com MORE... Search: quinn Found 22 documents, showing 1 - 10. picosearch.com

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (8826)	8/22/2005 9:54:59 AM
From: scion	Respond to of 12465

April 8-9 -- "Former clients sue attorney O'Quinn". ARCHIVE -- APRIL 2002 (I) overlawyered.com "Twenty former clients of lawyer John O'Quinn are suing him for alleged mishandling of the Kennedy Heights and Chevron contamination settlement, in which they received $12 million instead of the $500 million that he asserted their claims were worth." Billed at the time as a major "environmental racism" case, the Kennedy Heights litigation asserted that toxic residues had caused cancers and other ailments among the largely African-American residents of the Houston neighborhood, a charge disputed by defendant Chevron. But were the clients really unaware that it's standard practice for lawyers in this country to talk up a far higher valuation for injury claims than those claims are actually likely to settle for? The former clients also say O'Quinn used his involvement in the Kennedy Heights case for image-buffing purposes to help beat a 1998 disciplinary rap. "A similar [pending] lawsuit was filed in 1999 by about 80 former plaintiffs who were Kennedy Heights residents claiming O'Quinn allegedly shortchanged them on a settlement." (Jo Ann Zuniga, Houston Chronicle, Apr. 3). In 1999, when former breast implant clients filed a complaint against O'Quinn, the combative litigator struck back with a libel suit against the women's lawyer which resulted in a quick gag order shutting down the story (see Aug. 4, 1999).