Barrett offers a thorough account of the episode…The story is one of hardball corporate lawyers vs. Donziger made a ‘deal with the Devil’, noting that the attorney even opposed the Ecuadorean government’s own environmental clean-up plan in order to preserve his lawsuit.” -The Economist "A well-crafted account." - Wall Street Journal "Those interested in the rule of law and the role of the courts and lawyers will find Law of the Jungle instructive, entertaining, and frightening." -The American Spectator “A mind-boggling house of mirrors… unravels and imposes order on a confusing, multiyear circus and convincingly sorts out the guilty from the merely depraved." - San Francisco Chronicle " Bloomberg Businessweek writer Paul M. calls Texaco to account of dirty drilling, and holds Petroecuador, which maintained such practices for years, to the same standard. "Exhaustively reported and deftly written…reads like a John Grisham novel." -Forbes “Impressively even-handed. Written with the texture and flair of the best narrative nonfiction, Law of the Jungle is an unputdownable story in which there are countless victims, a vast region of ruined rivers and polluted rainforest, but very few heroes. Suddenly the verdict, and decades of Donziger’s single-minded pursuit of the case, began to unravel. Instead, Chevron targeted Donziger personally, and its counter-attack revealed damning evidence of his politicking and manipulation of evidence. But the company refused to surrender or compromise. And in the end, he won an unlikely victory, a $19 billion judgment against Chevon-the biggest environmental damages award in history. He cajoled and coerced Ecuadorian judges on the theory that his noble ends justified any means of persuasion.
During twenty years of legal hostilities in federal courts in Manhattan and remote provincial tribunals in the Ecuadorian jungle, Donziger and Chevron’s lawyers followed fierce no-holds-barred rules. Donziger, a larger-than-life, loud-mouthed showman, proved himself a master orchestrator of the media, Hollywood, and public opinion. The suit sought reparations for the Ecuadorian peasants and tribes people whose lives were affected by decades of oil production near their villages and fields. Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, signed on to a budding class action lawsuit against multinational Texaco (which later merged with Chevron to become the third-largest corporation in America). The gripping story of one American lawyer’s obsessive crusade-waged at any cost-against Big Oil on behalf of the poor farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest.
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