The Lawyer Who Tried to Bury a Funeral-Home Empire
It looked bleak in court for a Mississippi family man facing a corporate behemoth, Jonathan Harr writes. Then he hired Willie Gary, a star lawyer who raised the stakes to billion-dollar proportions.
"Gary held out his hand. 'As far as I'm concerned, this case is over,' he said. 'You lost.'" Harr on Willie Gary's audacious billion-dollar trial tactics against a funeral-home empire.