Lawyers and Dean
by matt le w
Mon Jan 31, 2005 at 10:22:10 AM PDT
An interesting factoid in for Dean and the DNC race... I was talking with my mom this weekend, a legal assistant who went to the NYC DNC meeting, who mentioned that in the primaries, trial lawyers were not big fans of Dean -- they definitely preferred Edwards, and after than, the Lieb or "ABD."
But in searching for how they feel about Dean these days, I found this news nugget on one of the state trial lawyer association pages:
1/21/05
Association of Trial Lawyers of America hires new CEO
This afternoon, the board of the national organization voted unanimously to hire Jon Haber, an attorney at Fleishman-Hilliard in Washington and former Senior staff member for Howard Dean, Former Chief of Staff for Diane Feinstein and committee counsel to Patrick Leheay.
This news doesn't seem to be out there so prominently, but it is interesting to see that the ATLA hired - this week - a senior staff member from the Dean campaign as their national CEO.
(As an aside, it may also mean that trial lawyers may get more savvy about pushing their view on tort reform/protection law in public... keep an eye on that one!)
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