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The Legacy of Pennzoil v. Texaco 40 Years Later — The Civil Jury Trial of the Century

Forty years ago this past Saturday night, Joe Jamail sat at his desk at home in Houston to handwrite his portion of the closing arguments in the multibillion-dollar trial of Pennzoil v. Texaco.

“All of a sudden, I hear a car horn blowing outside my house,” Jamail told The Texas Lawbook in an interview five months before his 2015 death. 

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