Posted on 12/04/2004 6:15:18 PM PST by Former Military Chick
HOUSTON - Will Denton, a prominent trial lawyer and adviser to best-selling novelist John Grisham, died Friday of complications following a heart transplant. He was 62.
His health had been deteriorating for two years, said his wife, Lucy.
Denton, a decorated veteran and former Air Force staff judge advocate, devoted more than half of his nearly 40-year legal career to personal injury cases that took him around the world.
He developed case law that helped refine the Jones Act, a federal maritime law.
Denton was attorney for the Biloxi Port Commission in Mississippi, a former Biloxi, Miss., city judge, co-author of a book on insurance bad-faith litigation and legal consultant and background researcher for several Grisham novels.
Grisham paid this tribute to Denton in the novel, "The Rainmaker": "Will has fought diligently for the rights of consumers and little people. His courtroom victories are legendary, and when I was a trial lawyer I wanted to be like Will Denton."
That's unfortunate. Perhaps John Grisham's novels will follow. Whatta hack he is.
*Who never lost a case.
Bless your dad. Mr. Okie did 25 years in the USA as a pilot. I had delusions of being a JAG until I had a houseful of kids.
AGYG's dad was also a pilot. A man of many talents....who died too young, as this did this fellow.
Oh, Annie! I had hoped your daddy was retired and golfing. I am so sorry!
OT: How is your doggy doing?
While I do enjoy most of Grishams books, there are a few that really did not catch my attention.
I enjoy the movies so I can see what "walk on" part he is doing, it is fun. But, evidently he isn't where he is on his own, he has wonderful help.
I hope he honors his friend as a good, honorable man should.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1294479/posts?page=34#34.
I posted a few thoughts of my father here
Very nice, FMC. Thank you for sharing.
Some days it is easier to share such memories. While he passed away in 87, it still feels like yesterday and when the Army/Navy game is on, well it is all to pick my fathers heavy wool blanket that I must assume he used at perhaps one of the games, I don't know maybe they were to manly for that but I have my day dreams.
I still have my dad and I don't know what I would do without him. He is getting frail and I am a long way away from him. I worry all the time.
Thanks again. All us girls love our daddies.
Read "A Painted House" for a different type novel from Grisham.
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