On a windy afternoon in 2002, two lawyers entered an abandoned mill near King City, Calif. The coyotes living inside the crumbling steel structure circled the intruders, curious. Peter Bicks, a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (www.orrick.com) climbed up to the attic and discovered a stack of old plastic bags with warnings affixed to the side.
He shouted to his colleague, Orrick partner Siobhan Handley, who was rifling through junk below. Bicks had found what they sought: labels indicating that his client, Union Carbide Corp. (www.unioncarbide.com), a Connecticut- based asbestos supplier, had warned customers about the hazards of its product.
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