18Sydney 2002
When Bruce Fraser started in the litigation department at Jacksons as a junior solicitor, he was quickly dragooned into the Henry King Industries asbestos litigation team. Fraser had wanted to concentrate on intellectual property, but he was not given the option. There had been an explosion in the number of cases against Henry King Industries. There was a crisis for Jacksons to handle. Henry King Industries’ defence needed to be organised, strategies developed. Squads of junior lawyers were sent over to its corporate headquarters and manufacturing plants to inspect the millions of documents it had stored in filing cabinets or bulging cardboard boxes. Jacksons needed to determine what documents would need to be discovered in the ongoing litigation and what documents could be
