Arthur G. Raynes, 72, founder of Center City law firm Raynes McCarty, who represented high-profile wrongful-death cases for more than 45 years, died of complications of lung cancer Monday at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He lived in Wynnewood. From 1960 to 1977, Mr. Raynes represented more than 50 children who were born with birth defects after their mothers took Thalidomide during pregnancy. The landmark cases were featured in the book, Suffer the Children: The Story of Thalidomide, written by investigative reporters for London's Sunday Times. Mr. Raynes also successfully represented the family of Jessica Savitch, the NBC News anchor who drowned in 1983 after the vehicle she was riding in plunged into the Delaware Canal in New Hope; 46 oil riggers who were killed in a Chinook helicopter crash off the coast of Scotland in 1986; and 1,354 HIV-infected hemophiliacs in Spain who contracted the virus in the mid-1990s as a result of defective blood.