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It all started, as most client assignments do, with a phone call

My phone rang just as the local 10 p.m. news was coming on the television.  The voice on the other end was firm and crisp, “Get to Mobile, Alabama as soon as possible, and report to the Unified Command!”  The order came from the response manager for the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill. I checked [...]