When cigarette-makers settled a class action suit two years ago filed on behalf of airline flight attendants who claimed to be victims of secondhand smoke, it looked as if Big Tobacco had gotten off easy. The deal would provide $300 million in funding for research into secondhand smoke. But the flight attendants got nothing. What the industry didn't bank on at the time was the half-dozen tenacious lawyers who would pick up the fight for individual damage awards for the flight attendants.
March 10, 2000 at 12:00 AM
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When cigarette-makers settled a class action suit two years ago filed on behalf of airline flight attendants who claimed to be victims of secondhand smoke, it looked as if Big Tobacco had gotten off easy.
The deal would provide $300 million in funding for research into secondhand smoke, and it would pay anti-tobacco lawyers Stanley and Susan Rosenblatt $49 million in legal fees and costs.
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