As a young Cravath, Swaine & Moore associate in the 1980s, Nick Gravante cut his teeth on big-ticket litigation in Texas, helping his mentor David Boies fight Texaco’s epic battle with Pennzoil. But nobody would mistake Gravante, who lives in Brooklyn and spent most of his working life in Manhattan, for a Texan.
Last week Gravante, now a leading partner at Boies, Schiller & Flexner, found himself back in the Lone Star State. He was in the East Texas town of Marshall for a second go-round after a mistrial in his first-ever False Claims Act whistleblower case, pressing allegations that Trinity Industries Inc. duped the government into paying for defective highway guardrails that sometimes functioned, tragically, as giant metal spears.
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