W&C Chosen to Represent Kansas in Contract Arbitration

Wagstaff & Cartmell is honored to have been selected by the State of Kansas to serve as outside counsel to the State in a contract dispute that has arisen between tobacco companies and all 46 states that agreed in 1998 to a Master Settlement Agreement, under which the tobacco companies make annual payments to Kansas and the other 45 states, subject to certain conditions and potential reductions. The dispute appears headed for commercial arbitration. The firm was selected from among a dozen law firms of varying sizes from around the United States that responded to the State’s Request for Proposals in August of 2008.