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"""Crude Justice is a hugely satisfying legal thriller in which Big Oil suffers a well-deserved fall at the hands of bright, underfunded young lawyers and their small businessmen employers. At the same time, it is an alarming close-up view of an industry that routinely distorts or hides any evidence against it."" --John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ""In Crude Justice, attorney Stuart Smith reveals the ruthless bag of tricks Big Oil employs everywhere from small town oil fields to state courthouses to the highest offices of Washington, DC--and what you and I can do to stop it. An eye-opening call to action."" --David Brock, author of the New York Times bestseller Blinded By the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative ""Stuart Smith draws on his deep Southern roots to produce a true-to-life, nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat, hard-hitting David vs. Goliath thriller. Crude Justice is hands down one of the most powerful environmental books of our age."" --Josh and Rebecca Tickell, directors of the award-winning documentaries Fuel and The Big Fix ""Crude Justice is a page turner that reads like a crime novel--only the events documented in the book are all too real... This book is a reminder of how difficult it is to shine a spotlight on even the most basic life-and-death stories from the frontlines of the energy economy. It is also a reminder of why those stories are so important and must be exposed."" --David Sirota, of the New York Times bestselling book The Uprising"

In Crude Justice, attorney Stuart Smith reveals the ruthless bag of tricks Big Oil employs everywhere from small town oil fields to state courthouses to the highest offices of Washington, DC--and what you and I can do to stop it. An eye-opening call to action. --David Brock, author of the New York Times bestseller Blinded By the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative

Crude Justice is a hugely satisfying legal thriller in which Big Oil suffers a well-deserved fall at the hands of bright, underfunded young lawyers and their small businessmen employers. At the same time, it is an alarming close-up view of an industry that routinely distorts or hides any evidence against it. --John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil In Crude Justice, attorney Stuart Smith reveals the ruthless bag of tricks Big Oil employs everywhere from small town oil fields to state courthouses to the highest offices of Washington, DC--and what you and I can do to stop it. An eye-opening call to action. --David Brock, author of the New York Times bestseller Blinded By the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative Stuart Smith draws on his deep Southern roots to produce a true-to-life, nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat, hard-hitting David vs. Goliath thriller. Crude Justice is hands down one of the most powerful environmental books of our age. --Josh and Rebecca Tickell, directors of the award-winning documentaries Fuel and The Big Fix

Crude Justice is a hugely satisfying legal thriller in which Big Oil suffers a well-deserved fall at the hands of bright, underfunded young lawyers and their small businessmen employers. At the same time, it is an alarming close-up view of an industry that routinely distorts or hides any evidence against it. --John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil In Crude Justice, attorney Stuart Smith reveals the ruthless bag of tricks Big Oil employs everywhere from small town oil fields to state courthouses to the highest offices of Washington, DC--and what you and I can do to stop it. An eye-opening call to action. --David Brock, author of the New York Times bestseller Blinded By the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative Stuart Smith draws on his deep Southern roots to produce a true-to-life, nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat, hard-hitting David vs. Goliath thriller. Crude Justice is hands down one of the most powerful environmental books of our age. --Josh and Rebecca Tickell, directors of the award-winning documentaries Fuel and The Big Fix Crude Justice is a page turner that reads like a crime novel--only the events documented in the book are all too real... This book is a reminder of how difficult it is to shine a spotlight on even the most basic life-and-death stories from the frontlines of the energy economy. It is also a reminder of why those stories are so important and must be exposed. --David Sirota, of the New York Times bestselling book The Uprising

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Stuart H. Smith is a practicing plaintiff attorney licensed in Louisiana. He is a founding partner of the New Orleans-based law firm Smith Stag, LLC. The firm's practice is concentrated in the fields of environmental law and toxic torts. Smith has practiced law for nearly 25 years and is recognized internationally as a crusader against major oil companies and other polluters for damages associated with radioactive oilfield waste. Smith has also been lead counsel on more than 100 oil pollution cases, which focus primarily on damages caused by the wastewater and sludge oil companies discharge into the environment. Smith's litigation experience includes a lawsuit against Ashland Oil for contaminating the Lee aquifer, once one of the largest sources of fresh water for residents in eastern Kentucky. He also sued Chevron Corporation for damages associated with that company's contamination of the groundwater in the rural town of Brookhaven, Mississippi. His firm also represents clients injured by chemicals and defective drugs. Smith is currently representing commercial fishermen, whose livelihoods have been devastated by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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