BP ups attack on Gulf of Mexico administrator

The oil giant has produced new evidence to back its claim that the lawyer administering the settlement process for the Gulf of Mexico 2010 oil leak should stand down.

Gulf of Mexico oil spill Danny E Hooks

BP says that Patrick Juneau did not disclose previous experience he had as a lawyer for the state of  Louisiana and for individual claimants. He had, say the BP lawyers, ‘spent over 500 hours representing the state of Louisiana and advocating on behalf of its claimants against BP’. Source: Bloomberg Businessweek

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