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Jan. 14, 2012

Legal sleight-of-hand: Taking down Continental Airlines

Continental Airlines should have taken DHL founder and law school graduate Larry Lee Hillblom seriously. By James D. Scurlock


By James D. Scurlock

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DHL founder and UC Berkeley School of Law graduate Larry Lee Hillblom, who was lost at sea in a 1995 plane crash, is easily one of the most brilliant, successful and controversial lawyers in California's history. In 1994, Continental Airlines sued Hillblom during a battle for control of a small conglomerate known as United Micronesian Development Corp., or UMDA. Hillblom countersued Continental's powerful CEO, F...

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