Tobacco Products Liability Project
Legal Drive Team Meeting
Abstract
Suggests organizational structure and responsibility of legal counsel at local, regional, and central oraganizations. General counsel to ensure regional lawyer takes account of "higher aspects...in the three areas of products liability, smoking ahd health regulation issues and new business development. Suggests formation of a legal strategy group. Recommends that tobacco litigation should be viewed as an attack on industry, and that responses should be coordinated with other competitors.
User-Contributed Notes
- Legal Departments--local, central, regional --reporting structure --"legal strategy group (LSG)" --"tobacco strategy group (TSG)" Trademarks Product Liability --industry issue Smoking & Health Issues Product Regulation
Fields
- Date Loaded
- 08 Jan 2003
- Type
- Letter
- Copied
- *Burke, Tony (use Burke, Francis Anthony (Tony)) (Vice President, Law & General Counsel)1998
- Clarke, Peter Lampard (BATCO Attorney, Legal Dept. Head, Company Secretary)
- Diz, Nelson (BAT Legal - Souza Cruz)Legal - Souza Cruz
- Chalfen, Stuart P., Esq. (BAT, Attorney, In-House General Counsel (died c.2000))General Counsel for B.A.T. Industries c. 1992
- Schweitzer, D.BAT - Germany
- Named Person
- Herter, Ulrich Georg Volker (BAT Tobacco Managing Director & Board of Directors Member)New Business Development
- Author (Organization)
- B.A.T. Cigarettenfabriken GmbH (B.A.T. Cigarettenfabriken GmbH)B.A.T. Cigarettenfabriken GmbH
- Author
- Dreyer, JoachimLegal
- Recipient (Organization)
- B.A.T. Industries PLC (BAT)British American Tobacco Industry, parent company of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. in the U.S.
- Recipient
- Withington, Neil (BAT Sr. Solicitor)Senior Solicitor
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