SH&B (Doc Index)
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Shook, Hardy & Bacon (often given the initials SHB or SH&B in the tobacco documents) is possibly the most crooked and unethical law firm in the USA. It originally worked for the tobacco industry under the older partnership name of Shook, Hardy, Ottman, Mitchell & Bacon In 1968 this partnership listed 27 lawyer's names on its letterhead. [2]
SH&B is based in Kansas City, and it services many industries other than just the tobacco companies. However we know most about its activities -- the way it provided services to the tobacco industry through corrupting scientists, recruiting academics to falsify testimony, and a thousand other forms of political and personal bribery -- simply because there are 14 million searchable documents in the Legacy Library files at San Francisco University, and many of them leave no doubt as to the roles that this company played in preserving the rights of the cigarette companies to kill their addicted customers.
David R Hardy was the principal of the company, most involved in servicing the tobacco industry. Later Donald K Hoel took over.
They appear to have worked out 'territorial' arrangements with the Washington law firm of Covington & Burling to share the bulk of the industry's corrupt business practices. So Dave Hardy worked with Stanley L Temko of C&B in the 1970s and Don Hoel later worked happily with John Rupp. This reflects the fact that both the Tobacco Institute (C&B) and the cigarette company Philip Morris (SH&B) both shared out the corruption in roughly equal measures.
Jacob Medinger
At some stage (difficult to identify when) the law firm of Edwin Jacob (Jacob Medinger) which had handled all the secret Special Project #4 and #5 payments for the Council of Tobacco Research (CTR) merged with SH&B and they took over these operations.
Key Tobacco Service Staff
- David R Hardy - named partner (son of founder)
- William W Shinn - principal named founder/partner
- Patrick M Sirridge - main early tobacco intriger
- Anthony J Andrade
- Charles ('Chuck') Wall
- Donald Hoel - major later tobacco intriguer
- Robert E Northrip - specialised in systematic document destruction.
- Bernard V O'Neil -- worked for tobacco in the late 1980s
Documents & Timeline
1960 Sept 9 Probably the first unequivocally dated document to Shook Hardy & Ottman at Kansas City from Robert B Seligman (head of R&D) at Philip Morris. He was dealing with David Harvey and sending him the "Mellon Report". [3]
| Shook Hardy & Bacon -- Partial fee listing at June 1989 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| William L Allinder | $130 p.h | ||
| Charles R Wall | Usually known as "Chuck" - a major worker for tobacco | ||
| Anthony J Andrade | $140 p.h | Primary tobacco legal consultant Jan 1983-May 2000 | |
| James M Cholakis | |||
| Walter L Cofer | $140 p.h | Did court-room work. But sent to UK to recruit British-American Tobacco in mid 1994. SH&B seems to be running 'Document Retention (Destruction) training.[4] | |
| William Davis | |||
| Dave Hardy | $230 p.h | Senior Named Partner | |
| Don Hoel | The main worker on the tobacco industry in the later period | ||
| Donald J Kemna | $115 p.h | ||
| Sally H Merriam | $60 p.h | ||
| Robert E Northrip | Top tobacco trial lawyer. He also specialised in running document destruction programs. | ||
| Bernard V O'Neill | $170 p.h | 1983 Jan | |
| William W Shinn | $230 p.h | Leading partner | |
| Patrick M Sirridge | $180 p.h | Most aggressive conspirator | |
| Lee E Stanford | $175 p.h | ||
| Vicki B Thompson | $80 p.h | ||
| Karen C Warner | $110 p.h | June 1989 working on witness recruitment | |
| Joan O Grunewald | Literature Research | ||
| See also their April 1989 fee listing. [5] | |||
1983 Mar 31 The letterhead of Shook, Hardy & bacon now lists 64 lawyers -- about a third worked in some way for the tobacco industry.
This letter from Robert E Northrip ('Bob') to Sam Chilcote at the Tobacco Institute is buttering him up. They have just done some preparatory work with TI staff for the Senate's Waxman hearings [6]
1998 Sep 10 This is the Philip Morris's list of law firms paid during 1997 and 1998. -- both for legal fees, and for Disbursements -- a euphemism in most cases for secret payments concealed by the law firm. It has a few hundred names listed but these are the most prominent:
| Name | 1998 to June Half-year only | 1997 Full Previous Year | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fees for Services | Disbursements | Fees for Services | Disbursements | |
| Shook Hardy & Bacon | $17.27 m | $19.19 m | $39.62 m | 36.90 m |
| Arnold & Porter | $13.44 m | $7.93 m | $35.05 m | $9.71 m |
| Hunton & Williams | $8.93 m | $1.58 m | $20.76 m | $4.10 m |
| Winston & Strawn | $7.97 m | $1.62 m | $21.66 m | $4.65 m |
| Goodwin Procter & Hoar | $7.08 m | $1.64 m | $6.63 m | $ 893 k |
| Wachel Lipton Rosen & Katz | $5.75 m | $1.85 m | $10.28 m | $3.48 m |
| Dechter Price & Rhoads | $4.97 m | $ 946 k | $15.86 m | $3.37 m |
| Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe | $4.40 m | $ 775 k | $6.38 m | $1.20 m |
| OVERALL TOTALS | $108.28 million | $48.55 million | $261.83 million | $96.08 million |
| [Note the absence of Covington & Burling (who mainly worked by this time for the Tobacco Institute) -- also that SH&B is the main launderer of the so-called 'Disbursements'. [7] | ||||
