[EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third story in a series profiling the in-house lawyers at the companies involved in the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Come back to CorpCounsel.com for more profiles of the general counsel and in-house lawyers working at companies involved in the spill. Or go to Part I on BP's GC or Part II on Transocean's GC.]
While BP PLC may have managed to cap the broken well that sent oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico for 87 days, the legal fallout from the spill is far from contained. BP is facing a steady stream of lawsuits, already estimated at over 250. One lawyer overseeing the legal cleanup is John (“Jack”) Lynch, the company’s U.S. general counsel.
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