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King of Torts Joe Jamail Featured on Slate’s ‘80 Over 80’ List
Posted Oct 21, 2009 2:31 PM CST
By Martha Neil
Billionaire attorney Joe Jamail is featured in a Slate list of the 80 most powerful octagenarians in America.
Relying on a profile of Jamail in an ABA Journal article about seven 70-plus lions of the trial bar, Slate notes that the 84-year-old is still pursuing bet-the-farm litigation.
To date, the King of Torts has won more than $13 billion for his clients and tried over 500 jury and bench trials, as the ABA profile details.
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B. McLeod
Oct 22, 2009 1:36 AM CST
This approach is actually an improvement on the contrary viewpoint. Having (apparently) never done anything at all significant in my life so far, I never made anybody’s list of 30 under 30, 40 under 40, or 50 under 50. By way of contrast, if the “80 over 80” approach spreads, I may be able to make the list of “100 over 100” if I can just last long enough (I figure by then, the listers will be casting around pretty desperately to make the quota).
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