Perspective From Wayne Reaud

TRIAL ATTORNEY

I’m a trial lawyer, and this book could put me out of business. Nobody would be happier about it than me.

Over the past 30 years, I have taken some of America’s biggest corporations to court, calling them to task for behavior that threatened people’s health and livelihoods. From asbestos makers to tobacco purveyors to computer manufacturers, I have fought to make big companies more accountable in their business dealings.

Ordinarily, you would not expect a trial lawyer to be particularly close with the CEO of a big corporation. So when people hear that Jon Huntsman and I are good friends, and have been for 15 years, they tend to scratch their heads. In the ecology of the business world, aren’t we natural ...

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