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Puerto Rico Lawyers Awarded $75 Mln in Tobacco Accord (Update1) 

Jump to full article: Bloomberg News, 2000-06-08
Author: William McQuillen

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Lawyers who represented Puerto Rico in the $206 billion settlement between the tobacco industry and the states will receive $75 million, the Tobacco Fee Arbitration Panel decided.

The industry will have to pay the fees, which equals 3.4 percent of Puerto Rico's $2.2 billion share of the accord, in addition to the settlement. . .

``This effort by national counsel was extraordinary,'' the panel wrote in its decision.

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