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‘Family values’ triumph at Cannes

A Thai man dying of kidney failure is visited by his late wife and lost son in ghostly form (Uncle Boonmee Who Can recall His Past Lives.) Two Italian men struggle with the challenges of single fatherhood in La Nostra Vita (Our Life.) A man and a woman are either complete strangers or husband and wife -- or both -- in Certified Copy. These were three of the big winners at this year's Cannes Festival, where the jury seemed to be taken by films with some kind of family theme. In a sense, family themes were also popular at last year's festival.  The winner of the 2009 Regards Jeunes prize went to Quebecer Xavier Dolan for J'ai tue ma mere (I Killed My Mother.) It isn't a spoiler to tell you the lead character didn't literally kill his mother. Read More

Car Company

Gave the legal team of a major automotive manufacturer the confidence to aggressively respond to the threat of antitrust action by the U.S. Department of Justice. Read More

CSX Transportation 2

Saved a client from a “death penalty verdict” by assembling a team of legal experts to expose the unreasonableness of a runaway jury.  Read More
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Energy Company

Launched a message campaign that freed a global energy firm from unreliable foreign partners.

A global energy firm was confronted with a major financial problem when its foreign partners refused to give it timely access to its share of cash returns.  Even worse, political allies of the firm began to elicit unfounded accusations from that country’s regulators.  The White House Writers Group launched a six-month, earned-media campaign aimed at financial elites to focus international pressure on the host country.  The result was the successful sale of the client’s interest in the partnership on favorable terms.