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Article: Wilkes & McHugh test new practice area in Arkansas: Florida firm known for suing nursing homes wades into class-action.
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- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- June 9, 2003
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ANDY MCCUMBER OF TAMPA, FLA., HAS FACED the Wilkes & McHugh law firm as much as any lawyer in the firm's home state, and he thought he knew the founder Jim Wilkes' business plan pretty well.
But when he learned that the firm's Little Rock office had filed a class-action suit against computer-maker Hewlett Packard over the functionality of a Microsoft Windows operating system, McCumber started to chuckle.
"That is a complete shock," he said.
John Maxey of Jackson, Miss., defends nursing homes against the negligence and abuse litigation that has traditionally been Wilkes & McHugh's bread and butter. He was similarly surprised to hear that the ...