Richard Faulk and John Gray Receive "The Burton Award for Legal Achievement"

On June 15, 2009, Richard O. Faulk and John S. Gray of Gardere Wynn Sewell, LLP, recieved the coveted Burton Award for Legal Achievement for 2009 in the field of Legal Writing. The award is a result of Faulk and Gray's influential law review article "Alchemy in the Courtroom? The Transmutation of Public Nuisance Litigation," 2007 Mich. St L. Rev. 941 (2008).  This article was cited by the Rhode Island Supreme Court in support of its groundbreaking decision unanimously rejecting the attempt to apply public nuisance law to former lead paint and lead pigment manufacturers. Faulk and Gray are frequent contributers to a number of online publications including NuisanceLaw.com. Their work is influential throughout the legal community and was certainly influential in turning back the misuse of nuisance law in Rhode Island.