Pretty much a complete description of most Lawyers.
Buy this stock. Chevron. CVX
I love the smell of toasted tree huggers in the morning. :)
I could see changing from Costco to Chevron gas. I like these guys taking the fight to the enemies.
When the World Wildlife Fund sued Vince McMahon's WWF, and made him change the name, (eventually to WWE) I thought that he should have set up a fake company and bought the charity so he could dissolve it.
For those who think that unregulated free markets are a good thing .... Settling disputes by lawsuit is libertarian heaven, but there is only one solution to this problem for an honest patriotic citizen who has regard for his fellow man - get a rope. If Patton Boggs goes bankrupt it will be slight justice. It is an LLP and so Chevron cannot go after the partners for their $9.5 Billion in damages trebble for malice - which I would give Chevron if I were on the jury.
When Texaco walked away from Ecuador they turned their properties over to the Ecuadorian government oil company who agreed to accept liability for any remaining work. Then Texaco put up, as I recall, another big pot of money for further cleanup.
Since then they have beaten every subsequent attempt to sue them in court.
So the whole thing was bogus from the beginning. If they wanted Texaco to be responsible for further cleanup then they needed to return her properties.