A lawyer's long path from corporate defender to DuPont foil

摘要

Environmental lawyer Rob Bilott went from defending chemical companies to taking on one ofrnthe largest, DuPont.rnBilott's first plaintiff, Wilbur Tennant, in what became massive class-action litigation againstrnDuPont over discharges of toxic chemicals from its Parkersburg, W.Va., facility, knew Bilottrnthrough family connections years earlier.