Talk:Jacob, Medinger & Finnegan

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that directed Council for Tobacco Research Special Projects. They have knowledge and/or participated directly in the tobacco industry's suppression of scientific research, directed the Center for Tobacco Research (Council for Tobacco Research) special projects and conspired to wrongfully employ the attorney/client, and/or attorney work product privileges to prevent the production of tobacco industry documents.

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Edwin J. Jacob and Timothy M. Finnegan, partners, worked with the law firm of Shook, Hardy and Bacon. They have knowledge and/or participated directly in the tobacco industry's suppression of scientific research, directed the Center for Tobacco Research (Council for Tobacco Research) special projects and conspired to wrongfully employ the attorney/client, and/or attorney work product privileges to prevent the production of tobacco industry documents. These documents show the industry's participation in the public disinformation on nicotine in tobacco products and smoking and health issues. Jacob, Medinger & Finnegan are Counsel for R.J. Reynolds and U.S. Tobacco. (PMI's Introduction to Privilege Log and Glossary of Names, Estate of Burl Butler v. PMI, et al, April 19, 1996){Add full source if in the archives)