A Florida jury awarded the client of a Coral Gables attorney in Engle progeny litigation a verdict in the tens of millions of dollars.

But that required Michael Alvarez, a partner at the Alvarez Law Firm and lead attorney for the estate of Norma Lipp, to show the jury the decedent had good character when she started smoking Virginia Slim cigarettes from her teens to early 30s.

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