For John, BLUF: Liz Warren has done outside work while at Harvard, but no public record shows she has done legal work for free for those who can't afford a lawyer. This seems OOC,♠ thus newsworthy. Nothing to see here; just move along.
Cornell Law Professor William Jacobson has been picking on Harvard Law Professor (and US Senate Candidate) Elizabeth Warren. Yesterday he asked, "Has Elizabeth Warren ever done pro bono litigation?"
Professor Jacobson says he has tracked down 22 cases where Ms Warren has done work for large corporations, but none where she has done pro bono♥ work for indigents.
Wouldn't you think that someone who is so concerned for the rest of us, so concerned that the system is rigged against the less fortunate, would be doing a little free work on the side to help the less well off? I like to think she has been a mole inside the corrupt corporate world, a sort of Herbert Philbrick, working on behalf of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Hat tip to the Instapundit.
Regards — Cliff
♠ Out of character.
♥ The term pro bono [publico] is used to describe, in the US, professional services providing voluntarily and for free (or near free) to those who can't otherwise afford such services.
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"I like to think she has been a mole inside the corrupt corporate world..."
Y'know where this sort of thing leads, don't you?
"Ms. Warren. Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Occupy Movement?"
Which character, in your historical reenactment, do you wanna play, Cliff? J. Edgar Hoover or Sen. McCarthy?
Not EVERYTHING leads to Tail Gunner Joe, but if we are going to have a play, I see myself as Karl Mundt and you as Robert Kennedy (I thought about you as Private G David Shine, but as he was a Harvard Grad, I rejected it on that basis.)
Regards — Cliff
There are a lot of ways to contribute back, one would be a guest speaker at a continuing legal education seminar. Merrimack Legal Services here in Lowell will at time sponsor free legal seminars for local attorneys, and in return those attorneys will represent two or three clients pro-bono in bankruptcy.
Warren has been off the grid in terms of her work in Massachusetts. A lot of the legal practice is the upfront work, before you even appear in court. A lawyers has to decide which venue, sometimes a case can be tried in either state or federal court depending on the facts and damages.
The Massachusetts BBO as well as the local law schools, including Harvard Law, are pretty clear what 'practice' means within a relevant jurisdiction for Massachusetts attorneys.
Oh well....
The personal comment by Michael Fredrickson to Mass Lawyers Weekly has lead to much diversion/confusion on the issue. Should we care about Warren's failure to license herself in Massachusetts? Yes, but most people don't care and lawyers are too concerned about their own licenses to protest against General Counsel's personal statement.
Another thing is I feel horrible for Twila Barnes, the Cherokee woman in OK who did the family tree as evidence that Warren does not having Native American heritage. She isn't a Republican, and is voting for Obama in November.
The GOP opposition did not expose Warren, it was an actual Native American.
Her blog...
http://www.pollysgranddaughter.com/
The Herald later quoted Fried, a former U.S. Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan, saying, “I can state categorically that the subject of her Native American ancestry never once was mentioned.”
It's a good idea to follow Renee's link. See for yourself the bias inherent in the tone and phrasing on the blog's author.
The hyperlinked quote comes from the linked article. I don't want to be accused of plagarism, if I ever run for something.
How did she end up as Harvard Law's First Woman of Color if no one knew?
They knew.
http://abcnews.go.com/m/blogEntry?id=16353666
If Warren supporters are attacking her and calling her a liar, yeah her tone would be different. Bias? Why because she's a Cherokee?
How did Harvard use Warren to their own advantage to create an image of diversity?
http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/05/10/records-shed-more-light-elizabeth-warren-minority-status/0frnjL8PwVQe2dmUAJC3vM/story.html
“The emergence of the University of Texas form does not explain why Warren listed herself as a minority in a widely used Association of American law Schools directory from 1986 through 1995.
Warren has said she was proud of her Native American heritage and that she was hoping to connect with “people like me.” The directory, however, did not list her as someone with Native American heritage. It simply said “minority.” Harvard Law School also touted Warren as a Native American in the Harvard Crimson when it was under fire for a lack of diversity on its faculty.
Leonard P. Strickman, founding dean at Florida International University, one of the nation’s most diverse law schools, said deans often consult the Association of American Law Schools directory when seeking out minority applicants, but look more rigorously at scholarship before making hires.”
She's white her entire life, her family is defined as white, including her mother's side in which her maternal ancestor actually shot an Indian back in the early 1900s. Then in 1986, she lists herself as a minority?
I'm not questioning what her mother told her, but my grandfather is from Sparti (Sparta), Greece I could make a whole host of folklore out of that.
Shrugs Shoulders.
OK, now we have trouble. My sympathies have always been for Athens in the Peloponnesian War—but then I read the Thucydides version of the conflict—some 2500 years ago. Memories are long.
Shifting just a little bit, isn't there a question of nepotism here, what with her husband being on the faculty, or are institutions of higher learning immune from that kind of issue?
Thanks
Regards — Cliff
Cliff,
Doesn't the US Military TRY to base married folks on the same base together? Nepotism?
Cliff, making a mountain out of a molehill is an art form in politics. I think you are mimicking Jackson Pollack, here.
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