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Attorney Who Has Never Lost a Trial Against Big Tobacco to Returns to the Courtroom and Wins in Retrial of Lung Cancer Case 

Mark Gottlieb, Director of the Tobacco Products Liability Project at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston observed that, "While Philip Morris escaped punitive damages, it still has a major problem with this verdict. In the nearly 7 years that Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds has had to tweak their defenses, this jury, like the one before it, still find them legally responsible for the lung cancer that killed Ms. Whiteley. After the California Supreme Court gave the green light for tobacco litigation to resume in California earlier this year, attorney Madelyn Chaber's extraordinary record of success should encourage many new cases to be filed"

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