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Litigation

Mar. 13, 2009

Entertainment Litigator Helped Discover the Lost City of Ubar

George R. Hedges, entertainment litigator, archeologist, musician and all-around Renaissance man, who, in addition to his thriving practice at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, helped discover the lost Arabian city of Ubar, has died. He was 57.

By Sara Randazzo
Daily Journal Staff Writer

George R. Hedges, entertainment litigator, archeologist, musician and all-around Renaissance man, who, in addition to his thriving practice at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, helped discover the lost Arabian city of Ubar, has died. He was 57.

Hedges died Tuesday morning in his South Pasadena home after a battle with melanoma, his wife Christy Hedges said.

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