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Exclusive: General Counsel Forum Honors Hunt GC David Hernandez for Ethics

October 5, 2016 Mark Curriden

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By Mark Curriden

(Oct. 5) – David Hernandez stood before 300 business lawyers Tuesday night to accept the General Counsel Forum’s annual Robert H. Dedman Award for Ethics and Law.

“I would love to tell you that I became a lawyer for a noble cause – to right the wrongs of the world,” Hernandez, who is the general counsel of Hunt Consolidated, told the audience. “But this is an ethics award, so I better tell you the truth.”

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Mark Curriden is a lawyer/journalist and founder of The Texas Lawbook. In addition, he is a contributing legal correspondent for The Dallas Morning News.

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