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senior managers representing DHLI and DHL, who met three or four
times a year to exchange information and discuss operational
issues of common interest. The companies that made up the entire
DHL network were at all times, through September 1992, controlled
by common interests.
In 1974, Hillblom hired Peter J. Donnici (Donnici), a lawyer
and law professor, to represent DHL in the CAB matter. About
that time, Hillblom asked Donnici to establish a law office in
Donnici’s name and to continue to represent DHL. L. Patrick Lupo
(Lupo), a law student of Donnici’s, was employed to assist in the
CAB litigation. After graduation from law school, Lupo was named
general counsel of DHL. A few years later, Donnici and Lupo
formed a law partnership that eventually became known as Donnici,
Kerwin & Donnici. DHL was the firm’s primary client, and it also
did legal work for DHLI and DHL shareholders. Donnici became
Hillblom’s business and general legal adviser and consultant on
major business decisions. Donnici and Hillblom were also
personal friends. DHL, and at one point DHLI, paid expenses of
the Donnici law firm, including rent, overhead, and all salaries.
In the early 1980’s, Donnici received DHL shares for his
past work for DHL, a third of which he gave to Lupo for work he
had done. Donnici was also a director of DHL from the early
1980’s until the early 1990’s. While a director of DHL, Donnici
received a retainer from DHLI in the amount of $48,000 per year.
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