12/19/2006

Litigation Partner Ted Wells Named National Law Journal's Lawyer of the Year

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Litigation partner Ted Wells was named 2006 Lawyer of the Year by The National Law Journal. The accompanying article, which appears in the December 18 edition, says that Ted "would only need to consider the past 12 months to come up with a list of accomplishments longer than what most attorneys would hope to achieve in a lifetime." According to the article, these achievements include:

• Preparing to defend I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, as he faces felony charges of lying to investigators and a grand jury in the probe into a leak of a CIA agent's name,
• Obtaining a mistrial for the former chairman of the nation's biggest pharmaceutical distributor in one of the largest securities fraud cases in history,
• Helping to negotiate a unique deferred-prosecution agreement in a federal case against former investment banker Frank Quattrone, who was accused of impeding a federal investigation involving public offerings of stock,
• Securing a partial victory for Philip Morris USA Inc. by convincing a judge to reject the government's proposal to require tobacco companies to pay $10 billion for smoker-cessation programs, and
• Helping to defend racial integration in education in two cases currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.