Elizabeth Warren's Days Defending Big Corporations

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Elizabeth Warren had never taken on the federal government before.

But in 1995, she found herself up against the Clinton administration, representing the Cleveland-based conglomerate LTV Steel.

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The LTV case was part of a considerable body of legal work that Ms. Warren, one of the nation’s leading bankruptcy experts, took on while working as a law professor — moonlighting that earned her hundreds of thousands of dollars over roughly two decades beginning in the late 1980s, mostly while she was on the faculty at Harvard. Much of it involved representing big corporate clients.

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Against that backdrop, some of Ms. Warren’s critics have seized upon her bankruptcy work for LTV and other big corporations to question the depth of her progressive bona fides. How, they wonder, could someone whose reputation is built on consumer advocacy have represented a company seeking to avoid paying for retired miners’ health care?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/elizabeth-warrens-days-defending-big-corporations/ar-AAJswEP?li=BBnbfcN

[LAS14]

1. So what? For me it lends her credibility. She knows what she's talking about. nt

[andym]

3. Yup. She knows how the system works for corporations

and then decided to follow or discover her own principles instead of being a hired hand. No advocate is better than one who served the other side. I believe the story of Paul in the bible is the an extreme archetype-- he actually goes from persecuting Christians to proselytizing.

[Champion Jack]

4. Bingo

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. The point is arguments like this will come out

Be ready for them.

[Bradshaw3]

13. Lots of things will come out about the nominee

Most will be a lot more damning then this. I could mention Biden's record in regards to banking, for example. You could find many more damning examples in his record, as well as those of other candidates. Your concern is noted.

[BeyondGeography]

14. This is the 3rd or 4th go-round

Starting with WaPo in the summer. Guess we’re due for another CFPB “how Warren was a meanie to those who opposed her” piece too. All these things do is make her more formidable to those who have an open mind because, if anything, she has under-stated her biography in the campaign.

[Hoyt]

2. If she plans on corporations and the wealthy funding our healthcare, she better

be courting them and doing everything she can to ensure their success.

But, when it comes down to it, she'll cave to corporate lobbyists just like she did the medical device manufacturers in Massachusetts. The medical device tax was an important -- though small -- funding source for the ACA, promoting the principle that those who profit from healthcare should help pay for it. But, Sen Warren quickly opposed the tax because medical devices are big in Massachusetts.

[NNadir]

5. Actually, this is the precise reason I support her. She can change her mind, which is a great...

...thing.

What we need more than anything in a world dominated by inflexible dogma is a person who can see - and even has been - on two sides of an issue.

I am, by the way, an adamant opponent of her stated energy policy, while regarding energy and the environment, especially climate change, as the most important issue before humanity, whether the majority of us agree or not.

Nevertheless, I support her, because with her, facts matter, and the facts are clear.

[Hav]

7. She did what a lawyer/hired export does:

Representing the interests of her client.
But the sums you can earn for these large corporations seem extraordinary. 90000 for two expert opinions sound insane unless that involved a workload of months with staff.
But generally, the article isn't really much of an issue.

[comradebillyboy]

8. How dare a lawyer represent her clients in court!!!!!!!

[CanonRay]

9. Another RW hit piece.

[yaesu]

10. That was her job at the time and she did her job well, that is called working for a living nt

[crazytown]

11. Scott Brown used it against Warren in 2012

damp squib

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. Yes

That's mentioned later in the article.

[BlueMTexpat]

17. And he lost.

Just sayin' ...!

[Blue_true]

15. She was a republican at one time and had her come to Jesus moment when

she participated in a study of people that filed for personal bankruptcy. She openly admits that when she agreed to do the study with two other experts, she went in expecting to find a lot of deadbeats that were trying to scam the system. The study totally changed her as a person, changed her into the champion of everyday Americans that she is now.

[pnwmom]

16. That was when she was an R. Since she became a Democrat she has worked as a progressive.

She hasn't, for example, sponsored legislation to make it harder for people to declare bankruptcy, as some other Dems have done.

[BlueMTexpat]

18. This. eom