Don Campbell has quietly become one of the most respected Plaintiff's attorneys in town (bio available here). Mr. Campbell and his firm Campbell & Williams don't get a lot of coverage on this blog because there's very little gossip spread about him, other than the fact that he's an intimidating opponent for defense counsel.Well, a few weeks back, the RJ reported that Don Campbell was living the Plaintiff's attorney's dream--causing an impact to the defendant's bottom line in order to try to change the way they behave:
Las Vegas Sands Corp. paid three men $42.5 million to settle a lawsuit in June, according to the operator's second-quarter earnings release Thursday.
The figure contributed to the company's net loss of $222.2 million in the quarter ended June 30. Las Vegas Sands also blamed the challenging economy, a noncash
impairment charge of $151.2 million and an increase in certain expenses that drove the company to its sixth straight quarterly loss.
Due to a confidentiality agreement, Campbell did not comment to the RJ about the case, but the paper summarized that the case was over money paid to LV Sands to help businessmen acquire a Macau gaming license:
The lawsuit was the second such action the company faced over its Macau licensing efforts in 14 months. In May 2008, a Clark County jury awarded Hong Kong businessman Richard Suen almost $60 million for his help in introducing Las Vegas Sands executives to Chinese government officials.
Okay, so it's not a lawsuit punishing [insert demonized company or industry here] for harming a little old lady. But impacting a company's bottom line to that degree is an impressive achievement.
Don is a PERFECT example of an attorney living their career. What I mean is he got great training, he learned how to be a good attorney, he took smart cases & won, then he used his money to slowly build the good cases to better cases. He is not a Plaintiff 'mill', he is not dishonest, his is not pompus. He is plainly just a good attorney.
ReplyDeleteYou know who has turned out to be really good, but was just lucky in the beginning...Williams. I've watched that kid go from the Court to clerking for Campbell to having his name on the door. Certainly, Williams is a good attorney, Campbell trained him. But there is a little bit of 'being at the right place at the right time'. Maybe he is his nephew, I don't think so, though.
No matter, Campbell is an attorney's attorney. He won't lie for you, he doesn't need to.
Now...I don't wanna hear any comment about a bathroom from some 'anonymous'.
The view from the other side of teh aisle is that Don is a terrific advocate for his clients. He is also very astute in the cases he accepts. An all around class act.
ReplyDeleteI went against him -- and got hammered. :(
ReplyDeleteBut watching him in court and in depositions was a real experience. He is an incredible lawyer. I learned so from watching him. I now do plaintiffs work, and often draw upon my experience of having seen him in action up close.
As an attorney and former client of Campbell and Williams, I was fortunate enough to see first hand just how great those two are, and take exception to Legally Unbounds comment about Williams being "lucky." Don really is everything people say he is, but Colby Williams is the guy that doesn't get nearly enough credit for all he contributes to the partnership. Around the firm, they have a saying- "Colby loads the gun, and Don fires it." Anybody who has ever been a client knows that Williams deals with 95% of the workload leading up to the depositions, and when it comes to appellate work of any kind, Williams may be the best and hardest working attorney in town. Both Campbell and Williams are very hard working, honest, and ethical guys, and as a client, you feel honored that such first class guys even took on your case, because they really do turn down most that come through their door. Congrats Don and Colby.
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