Crowell and Moring

<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">Crowell & Moring</h1>b2 rev door: vs trump impeachAnn R. Klee Under Bush: EPA general counsel from 2004 to 2005 Best known for: Arguing in court that the EPA doesn’t have authority to regulate greenhouse gases. She called the Supreme Court’s 2007 ruling to the contrary “<a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june07/scotus_04-02.html" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-image="background-image" url="url" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb">disappointing</a>“ Revolving door: Now a registered lobbyist for Crowell and Moring, she has represented the <a href="http://motherjones.com/environment/2009/05/plastic-fantastic" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-image="background-image" url="url" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb">American Chemistry Council</a>, Dow, and<a href="http://motherjones.com/environment/2008/05/scrubbing-king-coal" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" background-position="background-position" px="px" background-image="background-image" url="url" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb"> Peabody Energy</a>, the world’s largest coal company==note: "Big Law"<div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/06/trumps-lawyers/">https://www.alternet.org/2021/06/trumps-lawyers/</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">aldous pennyfarthing kos</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>BREAKING NEWS: Saruman's orcs are having a hard time finding jobs in the new post-Mordor economy. Several Uruk-hai have applied for au pair positions in the Shire and been flatly refused. Who knows why? Might have something to do with their brazen attempt to sack Gondor, but it could be anything, really.Won't someone think of the orcs? They need to eat, too!By all rights, having worked for the Trump administration should essentially bar you from any kind of work—with the possible exception of squeegeeing the ex-pr*sident's kingly moobs once a fortnight ... or whenever he orders a 12-piece Chicken McNugget with extra sauces. And while that's certainly more than a one-person job, unfortunately it's not going to help the dozens of traitors who stuck with this doofus through thousands of lies, two impeachments, dozens of outrages, and one full-blown insurrection against the legitimate government of the United States.According to a recent Bloomberg story, lawyers who served in the Trump administration are facing higher hurdles than members of past administrations when it comes to securing employment.<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-18/top-trump-lawyers-find-washington-s-revolving-door-turns-slowly" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Bloomberg:</a><blockquote style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 1em 40px 1em -5px; border-left: 4px solid rgb(11, 13, 101); line-height: 32px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; width: 602.543px;">Trump lawyers have been more difficult to place than those who served in previous administrations, particularly if they were closely connected to his most controversial policies or if they lacked the experience past alumni had, said Lauren Drake, a partner at search firm Macrae.

Several companies and law firms <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/terminal/QNC90CDWRGG0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">distanced themselves</a> from Trump after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Corporate law firm Crowell & Moring called for <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/terminal/QML25ODWLU6B" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Trump's removal</a> from office and urged others to make the same demand. Law firms <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/terminal/QN9C1UDWRGG7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Morgan, Lewis & Bockius</a> and <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/terminal/QMWD6MT0G1KW" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Seyfarth Shaw</a> dropped Trump and his businesses as clients.
"I don't think anyone coming out of the George W. Bush administration was told, 'We can't hire this person,'" [former Trump administration Homeland Security attorney Ken] Cuccinelli said. "I'm sure Jan. 6 made it that much worse than it ever would have been."
</blockquote>Gee, ya think? Jan. 6 made it much worse? You'd think lawyers for the Trump administration would have about as much chance of being hired elsewhere as Capt. Hazelwood did of getting another oil tanker gig, but that's an unfair comparison ... because the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Exxon-Valdez-oil-spill#ref1078659" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Exxon Valdez spill</a> was a fucking accident.Cuccinelli, the deputy secretary of Homeland Security from late 2019 to early 2021, has personally discovered just how radioactive Trump was and is. After being considered for one particular corporate job, and being turned down, Cuccinelli told Bloomberg, "They just decided they didn't want Trump people. It was just flat out—you can call it Trump discrimination."Sure, you can call it Trump discrimination. You could also call it common decency. The latter rings more true to me.Of course, there are competing theories as to why major law firms are showing such a reluctance to soil their pantaloons in public.Reed D. Rubinstein, who worked for the Trump Education Department, said the lack of interest in Trump's henchmen has to do with "the extent to which Big Law has been captured by the political left.""To protect the middle and working class, we directly challenged the control, legitimacy, and power of the credentialed managerial class and their corporate institutions," Rubinstein told Bloomberg. "So it's not a surprise to me that they are hostile to Trump administration alumni."Sure, Reed. Whatever helps you sleep, my man.Of course, this dynamic could change as Republicans proceed in their campaign to flush Jan. 6 down the memory hole. But for now, I'll relish this limited—and perhaps temporary—comeuppance.As far as I'm concerned, most Trump lackeys should be shunned from polite society altogether. Or impolite society, for that matter. Send them to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilha_da_Queimada_Grande" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Snake Island</a>. They'd fit in better there anyway.</div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div></div>Some of the country's biggest law firms have recently penned “client

alert” memoranda, suggesting to their clients that they closely monitor

the ongoing Attorneys General investigations <a target="blank" href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/30032016/climate-change-fraud-investigation-exxon-eric-shneiderman-18-attorneys-general">occurring in states nationwide</a> on the potentially fraudulent behavior of ExxonMobil.

DeSmog tracked down alerts written by three different firms: <a target="blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Crowell%20Moring%20Ever%20Widening%20Circle.pdf" style="line-height: 17.6px;">Crowell & Moring</a>, <a target="blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/When%20Attorneys%20General%20Attack.pdf" style="line-height: 17.6px;">Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw </a><a target="blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/When%20Attorneys%20General%20Attack.pdf" style="line-height: 17.6px;">Pittman</a>, as well as <a target="_blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/State%20AGs%20Announce%20Climate%20Change%20Investigations.pdf" style="line-height: 17.6px;">King & Spalding</a>. All of them have maintained fossil fuel industry clients as well as tobacco industry clients, a DeSmog review has revealed.

A <a target="_blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/05/11/ted-wells-exxon-big-tobacco-nfl-concussions">previous DeSmog investigation</a>

pointed out that Exxon has hired Ted Wells, who represented Philip

Morris in Big Tobacco's racketeering lawsuit filed against it by the U.S. Department of Justice, to its legal defense team for the ongoing state AGs' probe.

The AGs' investigation centers around <a target="_blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/04/26/there-no-doubt-exxon-knew-co2-pollution-was-global-threat-late-1970s">what Exxon knew about climate change</a>

and its potential impacts over the past several decades. That's

juxtaposed with what the oil giant did about it: funding climate denial

to the tune of at least <a target="_blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/exxonmobil-funding-climate-science-denial" style="line-height: 17.6px;">$31 million between 1998-2015</a>.

Two of the alerts came out in

recent weeks, published in the aftermath of a press conference in New

York City in which many new states announced they would join New York

Attorney General <a target="blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/11/05/ny-attorney-general-investigation-subpoena-exxonmobil-peabody-coal-climate-denial">Eric Schneiderman's Exxon investigation</a>, launching the “<a target="blank" href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/30032016/climate-change-fraud-investigation-exxon-eric-shneiderman-18-attorneys-general">AGs United for Clean Power</a>” coalition.

All of the attorneys whose names

are listed on the client alerts denied requests for on-the-record

comment when contacted by DeSmog.

<h3>

Crowell & Moring</h3>

Crowell's three-page alert came out just five days after Schneiderman's office subpoenaed ExxonMobil.

The memo, titled “The Widening Circles of the Exxon Mobil Climate

Disclosure Investigation and Its Implications for Energy Companies,”

took note of both the <a target="blank" href="http://graphics.latimes.com/exxon-arctic/">Los Angeles Times</a> and <a target="blank" href="http://insideclimatenews.org/content/Exxon-The-Road-Not-Taken">InsideClimate News</a> investigations that put “<a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=news&q=%23EXXONKNEW">Exxon Knew</a>”

as a meme on the map. It pointed to them as evidence that the

investigation has already gotten off to a head start, given the breadth

and depth of the journalism.

“The Exxon Mobil investigation could prove even more complex, and the

results more far-reaching, because of the long history of the company's

own research into climate-related issues and its own public disclosures

(including SEC filings) on the topic,” reads the alert.

“[I]n addition to the information likely to be yielded by the scope of the [New York AG]

subpoenas, the Exxon Mobil public record has already been enhanced by

two widely reported independent private investigations by news

organizations, including a joint Los Angeles Times/Columbia University

School of Journalism study, which describes in detail Exxon's climate

research in the Arctic and the company's corresponding statements to,

and omissions from, the investing public about the perceived business

threat from climate change.”

Former Crowell attorney <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz">Victor Schwartz</a> — now with Shook, Hardy & Bacon and a <a target="blank" href="https://www.alec.org/person/victor-schwartz/">member</a> of the <a target="blank" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council">American Legislative Exchange Council</a>'s board of scholars — <a target="blank" href="https://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/#id=pgpk0059">formerly represented tobacco giant Philip Morris</a> on behalf of the firm. Crowell has

maintained Shell, Chevron, Koch Industries subsidiary Georgia-Pacific,

Duke Energy, Alpha Natural Resources, Peabody Energy, General Electric,

American Petroleum Institute, Arch Coal, Schlumberger and others as <a target="_blank" href="http://www.law360.com/firms/crowell-moring/clients">legal clients</a>.

A Koch-funded front group, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, has <a target="_blank" href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/08042016/think-tank-fossil-fuel-ties-competitive-enterprise-institute-subpoena-attorney-general-climate-change-exxon">already received a subpoena</a>

from the Attorney General of the Virgin Islands. And the American

Petroleum Institute serves as one of the subjects of an InsideClimate

News investigative piece, having <a target="_blank" href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/22122015/exxon-mobil-oil-industry-peers-knew-about-climate-change-dangers-1970s-american-petroleum-institute-api-shell-chevron-texaco">studied the impacts</a>

of industry-created carbon dioxide in the atmosphere beginning back in

the late-1970's only to proceed with funding climate denial in the

following decades.

<h3>

King & Spalding</h3>

On April 18, King & Spalding published its four-page client alert. 

One of King's clients is Chevron, which it <a target="blank" href="http://www.kslaw.com/News-and-Insights/NewsDetail?us_nsc_id=5082">represented</a> in the still-ongoing pollution case in Ecuador. It also has <a target="blank" href="http://www.law360.com/firms/king-spalding/clients">represented</a> Shell

Oil, ConocoPhillips, Georgia-Pacific, Halliburton, General Electric,

Anadarko Petroleum, Peabody Energy, Occidental Petroleum, Marathon Oil,

Motiva Enterprises, <a target="blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Autry%20Petroleum%20Company%20et%20al%20v.%20BP%20Oil%20Products%20North%20America.pdf">BP</a> and <a target="blank" href="http://www.kslaw.com/News-and-Insights/NewsDetail?us_nsc_id=6541">Big Tobacco companies</a>.

King & Spalding opened up the alert by stating that the “growing focus by state AGs on climate change could present significant challenges for energy companies going forward.”

“These new investigations are a striking reminder of the increasingly aggressive role that state AGs play in the government investigations arena,” King went on to write. “In recent years, state AGs

have become increasingly involved in high-profile policy issues like

climate change that are part of ongoing national debates. In some

situations, these investigations look more like prospective policymaking

than retrospective enforcement action.”

In the alert, King & Spalding also touted its “strategic partnership” with former Wisconsin Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kslaw.com/News-and-Insights/NewsDetail?us_nsc_id=9138">launched in October 2015</a>, and its past attorney-client relationship with Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company (which has since merged into R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company).

<h3>

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman</h3>

Pilsbury, like the others, told its clients that although Exxon has

come first in this investigation, there's a chance they could fall next

in line. Not only that, the firm recommended deferring the legal costs

of such an investigation to their insurance companies.

“Although the details of future enforcement activity are not clear, it

is reasonable to expect increasing government scrutiny of climate

change-related disclosures,” wrote the firm to its clients.

“Our White Collar and Insurance Recovery and Advisory attorneys routinely evaluate CIDs

and subpoenas and help clients not only to develop strategies to

respond, but to maximize the potential that our clients’ insurance

companies pay for that response. In most cases, we are able to review

and evaluate specific situations for relatively low cost or fixed fee

arrangements, which enable us to assist our clients to proactively

improve our clients’ position and minimize their risk.”

The <a target="blank" href="http://www.law360.com/firms/pillsbury-winthrop/clients">firm's client list</a> has included the likes of Chevron, British American Tobacco, Schlumberger, as well as <a target="blank" href="http://www.pillsburylaw.com/litigation">Duke Energy</a>.

<h3>

Contemplating Similar Fate?</h3>

A recent report published by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), based on documents put up on the website <a target="_blank" href="https://www.smokeandfumes.org/#/">SmokeAndFumes.org</a>,

moved back the time clock of what the fossil fuel industry knew and

when it knew it with regards to carbon dioxide pollution and global

warming. The report concluded that knowledge dated back at least to the

1950's, which coincided with the industry proceeding to create a

disinformation campaign to confuse the public about the impacts of

emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

CIEL president Carroll Muffett described DeSmog's findings as important on a number of levels.

“These notices to clients demonstrate that, even as Exxon and its allies attempt to minimize and dismiss the AG

investigations in the media, the fossil fuel industry recognizes their

significance for individual companies and for the industry as a whole,”

Muffett told DeSmog.

“That oil companies are turning to

the same firms that represented tobacco is telling: once it began,

tobacco litigation continued for decades and ultimately ensnared the

entire industry. Fossil fuel producers are now clearly–and

legitimately–contemplating a similar fate,” Muffett said.==

Crowell and Moring (C&M) is a major <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Law_firms" title="Law firms">law firm</a>.

A 1993 internal budget review document for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_Morris" title="Philip Morris" class="mw-redirect">Philip Morris</a> group of companies had Crowell and Moring with a preliminary budget allocation of $150,000.

Describing the project, the document states, "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Victor_Schwartz" title="Victor Schwartz">Victor Schwartz</a>, partner of C&M, serves as a legal consultant to the Consumer Products Tort Coalition and separately serves as a legal tort consultant to the PM Family. His PM related assignments are articulated by Chuck Wall. Mr Schwartz is a nationally recognised legal scholar and advises federal and state tort coalitions and public officials." <a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/wqq02a00" class="external autonumber" title="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/wqq02a00" rel="nofollow">[1]</a>

Crowell and Moring is handling accounts for several <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Private_Military_Corporations" title="Private Military Corporations">private military contractors</a> operating in <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> including <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Blackwater_USA" title="Blackwater USA" class="mw-redirect">Blackwater USA</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Triple_Canopy_Inc." title="Triple Canopy Inc.">Triple Canopy Inc.</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=DynCorp" title="DynCorp">DynCorp International</a>, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Erinys_International_Ltd." title="Erinys International Ltd.">Erinys International Ltd.</a> The lead partner at C&M handling these accounts is <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Hammond&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Hammond (page does not exist)">David Hammond</a> <a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/law/careercenter/lawArticleCareerCenter.jsp?id=1182243948850" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.law.com/jsp/law/careercenter/lawArticleCareerCenter.jsp?id=1182243948850" rel="nofollow">[2]</a>

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Mr. Onek has worked with a number of political and legal organizations, and brings a wealth of expertise on civil liberties and national security. He served as Deputy Counsel to the President during the Carter administration and as Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General and State Department Rule of Law Coordinator, during the Clinton administration. In addition, Mr. Onek was a Law Clerk for Justice <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=William_J.Brennan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William J. Brennan (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">William J. Brennan</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and Assistant Counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee. In the private sector, Mr. Onek was the Director of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_of_Law_and_Social_Policy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Center of Law and Social Policy (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Center of Law and Social Policy</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and is a former Partner in the law firms <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Crowell%26_Moring" title="Crowell & Moring" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Crowell & Moring</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> LLP and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Onek_Klein_%26_Farr&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Onek Klein & Farr (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Onek Klein & Farr</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.motherjones.com/radio/2005/07/onek_bio.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255) url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" scroll="scroll" xmlns:data="data">[1]</a>

<h2>Contact details</h2>

1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Washington, DC 20004

Phone: (202) 624-2500

Fax: (202) 628-5116

Web: <a href="http://www.crowell.com" class="external free" title="http://www.crowell.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.crowell.com</a>

<h2>External links</h2>

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<li>Philip Morris, "<a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/wqq02a00" class="external text" title="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/wqq02a00" rel="nofollow">Corporate Affairs: corporate cost review</a>, Bates No 2046996735, July 1993 (estimated), page 5.</li>

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Victor E. Schwartz has been called "the undisputed king of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tort_reform" title="Tort reform" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">tort reform</a>."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> He is a partner at the Washington D.C. offices of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Shook,Hardy%26_Bacon" title="Shook, Hardy & Bacon" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Shook, Hardy & Bacon</a> LLP, and chairs the law firm's Public Policy Group.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a> In 2007, he was considered one of Washington, D.C.'s 50 top lobbyists.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a> A casebook he co-authors, Prosser, Wade and Schwartz Torts, is the most widely used torts casebooks in the United States.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a>

He is also the author of Comparative Negligence and the Guide to Multistate Litigation.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a>

Schwartz is a member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a> (ALEC). Schwartz is listed on ALEC's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC_Board_of_Scholars" title="ALEC Board of Scholars" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Board of Scholars</a> and is co-chair of its <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Civil_Justice_Task_Force" title="Civil Justice Task Force" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Civil Justice Task Force</a> as of 2011. He also previously won the "Jeffersonian Award," ALEC's highest award to private sector members. He has been involved with ALEC for several years.

He is also on the General Counsel to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Tort_Reform_Association" title="American Tort Reform Association" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Tort Reform Association</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a>

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<div style=" padding: 2px 5px; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ALEC" title="ALEC" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ALEC</a> is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front group; it is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, corporations hand state legislators their wishlists to benefit their bottom line. Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations. They pay for a seat on ALEC task forces where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with elected officials to approve “model” bills. Learn more at the Center for Media and Democracy's <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alecexposed.org/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">ALECexposed.org</a>, and check out breaking news on our <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">PRWatch.org site</a>.</div>

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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Victor Schwartz has worked to "integrate litigation, government affairs and public relations" in Shook, Hardy & Bacon's D.C. law firm since 2001.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-8" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a> In 2011, he lobbied on behalf of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peabody_Energy" title="Peabody Energy" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Peabody Energy</a>, Eli Lily & Co., and The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S._Chamber_of_Commerce" title="U.S. Chamber of Commerce" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">U.S. Chamber of Commerce</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-mark_hansen-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-10" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a> A 2007 ABA Journal article also identified him as a lobbyist for the Animal Health Institute in 2005<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-11" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a> and a Public Citizen report listed him as a lobbyist for the General Aviation Manufacturers Association and the Product Liability Coordinating Committee, in 1997.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-12" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a>

Other clients of Shook, Hardy & Bacon include, but are not limited to:

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Philip Morris, now <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Altria_Group" title="Altria Group" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Altria Group</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-13" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amgen" title="Amgen" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Amgen</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-mark_hansen-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bristol-Myers_Squibb" title="Bristol-Myers Squibb" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bristol-Myers Squibb</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-mark_hansen-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/GlaxoSmithKline" title="GlaxoSmithKline" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">GlaxoSmithKline</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-mark_hansen-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sanofi-Aventis" title="Sanofi-Aventis" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Sanofi-Aventis</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-mark_hansen-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Guidant and Wyeth<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-mark_hansen-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sprint_Nextel" title="Sprint Nextel" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Sprint Nextel</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-14" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a> and</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Microsoft" title="Microsoft" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Microsoft</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-15" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a></li>

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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Schwartz is also on the Board of Directors of the Searle Civil Justice Institute at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_Mason_University" title="George Mason University" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">George Mason University</a> School of Law.

Before working at Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Schwartz worked as a lawyer at Crowell & Moring for 21 years.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-16" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a> He was Director of the Federal Insurance Administration from 1978-1980 and was a professor and dean at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-17" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a> According to the U.S. Senate Office of Public Records, he was registered as a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lobbying" title="Lobbying" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">lobbyist</a> with Crowell & Moring in at least 1999-2001.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-18" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a> He also served as chair of the Federal Inter-Agency Task Force on Product Liability at the Department of Commerce, and the Federal Inter-Agency Council on Insurance under the Ford and Carter Administrations.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-19" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[19]</a> He was the principal author of the Uniform Product Liability Act and the Federal Risk Retention Act.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_note-20" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tort_reform" title="Tort reform" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Tort reform</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tobacco_industry" title="Tobacco industry" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Tobacco industry</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Pharmaceutical_industry" title="Pharmaceutical industry" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Pharmaceutical industry</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Legislative_Exchange_Council" title="American Legislative Exchange Council" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Legislative Exchange Council</a></li>

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<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Terry Carter <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=y5qvyMHoQrgC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Piecemeal Tort Reform</a>, ABA Journal, December 2001</li>

<li id="cite_note-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.shb.com/attorney_detail.aspx?id=16" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Victor E. Schwartz</a>, lawfirm biography, accessed June 6, 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Kim Eisler <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/mediapolitics/4264.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Hired Guns: The City's 50 Top Lobbyists</a>, Washingtonian, June 1, 2007</li>

<li id="cite_note-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> American Legislative Exchange Council, 2011 Annual Meeting Leadership Listing, conference brochure on file with CMD, August 11, 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lexisnexis.com/store/catalog/booktemplate/productdetail.jsp?pageName=relatedProducts&prodId=6801" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">"Comparative Negligence."</a> Lexis Nexis. LexisNexis.com. Accessed Aug. 17, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.amazon.com/Guide-multistate-litigation-Trial-practice/dp/0070557551" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">"Guide to Multistate Litigation."</a> Amazon. Amazon.com. Accessed Aug. 17, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hotcoffeethemovie.com/811/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Victor Schwartz</a>, Hot Coffee the Movie. HotCoffeeTheMovie.com. Accessed Aug. 17, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-8" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Center for Responsive Politics <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/rev_summary.php?id=10918" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Victor Schwartz</a>, OpenSecrets.org, accessed June 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-mark_hansen-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-mark_hansen_9-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:9.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-mark_hansen_9-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">9.1</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-mark_hansen_9-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">9.2</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-mark_hansen_9-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">9.3</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-mark_hansen_9-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">9.4</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-mark_hansen_9-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">9.5</a> Mark Hansen <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/shook_hardy_smokes_em/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Shook Hardy Smokes ‘Em</a>, ABA Journal, October 1, 2008</li>

<li id="cite_note-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-10" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Center for Responsive Politics <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmlbs.php?id=D000029038&year=2011" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Lobbying: Shook, Hardy & Bacon</a>, OpenSecrets.org, accessed June 24, 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-11" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Terry Carter <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.law.msu.edu/news/2007/ABA_Journal_Favre.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Beast Practices: High-profile cases are putting plenty of bite into the lively field of animal law</a>, ABA Journal, November 2007</li>

<li id="cite_note-12" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-12" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Public Citizen <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.citizen.org/congress/article_redirect.cfm?ID=562" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">The General Aviation Act: When it Comes to Product Liability, Don't Believe What They Claim</a>, online report, accessed June 1, 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-13" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-13" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://tobaccodocuments.org/bliley_pm/24415.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Philip Morris ETS Billing Categories</a>, lawfirm report, December 1990</li>

<li id="cite_note-14" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-14" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Bloomberg News <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/26/technology/26vonage.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Vonage Infringed 6 Patents of Sprint, U.S. Jury Rules</a>, New York Times, September 26, 2007</li>

<li id="cite_note-15" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-15" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Steve Vockrodt <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2009/07/13/story12.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Microsoft uploads Shook Hardy & Bacon to its law firm short list</a>, Kansas City Business Journal, July 9, 2009</li>

<li id="cite_note-16" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-16" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Terry Carter <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=y5qvyMHoQrgC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Piecemeal Tort Reform</a>, ABA Journal, December 2001</li>

<li id="cite_note-17" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-17" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/rev_summary.php?id=10918" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Victor Schwartz work history</a>, OpenSecrets.org</li>

<li id="cite_note-18" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-18" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> U.S. Senate Office of Public Records, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=submitSearchRequest" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Lobbying Disclosure Act Database</a>, Federal lobbyist database, accessed June 25, 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-19" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-19" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Victor Schwartz, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/testimony.cfm?id=4f1e0899533f7680e78d03281ff1bfa1&wit_id=4f1e0899533f7680e78d03281ff1bfa1-2-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Testimony of Mr. Victor Schwartz before the Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts of the Senate Judiciary Committee, United States Congress, Regarding S. 1428, "The Commonsense Consumption Act of 2003"</a> United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, October 16, 2003</li>

<li id="cite_note-20" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Victor_Schwartz#cite_ref-20" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/tortsprof/2011/02/tuesdays-with-torts-masters-victor-schwartz.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) 100% 50% no-repeat;">Tuesdays with Torts Masters: Victor Schwartz</a>,"TortsProf Blog"</li>

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<h2 class="title"><a href="http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/07/mountaintop-removal-inbreeding-coal-mining" title="Big Coal: Inbreeding, Not Mining, to Blame for Birth Defects">Big Coal: Inbreeding, Not Mining, to Blame for Birth Defects</a></h2>

— By <a href="http://motherjones.com/authors/gavin-aronsen">Gavin Aronsen</a>

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Last month, when coal execs read the report <a target="blank" href="http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/06/mountaintop-removal-birth-defects">linking birth defects to mountaintop removal mining</a>, they weren't exactly thrilled. One rebuttal, penned by four attorneys with the firm Crowell & Moring, which represents the National Mining Association, accused the study's authors of using cherry-picked and misleading data. But that apparently wasn't convincing enough, so they went a step further and employed a <a target="blank" href="http://www.slate.com/id/2192830/">discredited stereotype</a> about inbreeding in West Virginia.

"The study failed to account for consanquinity [<a target="_blank" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/consanguinity">sic</a>], one of the most prominent sources of birth defects," the attorneys' statement said. It then went on to advertise the firm's services to coal companies looking to "counter unfounded claims of injury or disease" from potential lawsuits sparked by the study.

The statement, which had been on the firm's website for more than a week, was quickly removed yesterday after Charleston Gazette <a target="blank" href="http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/2011/07/11/mountaintop-removal-and-birth-defects-just-what-are-the-coal-industrys-lawyers-talking-about/">blogger Ken Ward Jr.</a> pointed out its insinuation that inbreeding hicks, not mountaintop mining, were to blame for spikes in the rate of birth defects, which it also said didn't exist in the first place. Wrap your head around that one. (Thanks to Ward, you can still read the statement <a target="blank" href="http://wvgazette.com/static/coal%20tattoo/CrowellMoring_BirthDefects.doc">here</a>.) 404

but <a href="https://web.archive.org/web//http://www.wvgazette.com/static/coal%20tattoo/CrowellMoring_BirthDefects.doc">https://web.archive.org/web//http://www.wvgazette.com/static/coal%20tattoo/CrowellMoring_BirthDefects.doc</a> downloaded

Clifford J. Zatz, William L. Anderson, Kirsten L. Nathanson, and Monica M. Welt

Ward asked one of the study's co-authors, West Virginia University's Michael Hendryx, to weigh in. His response:

The criticisms raised are to be expected. I disagree that we overstated our findings. I think we’ve been appropriately cautious in what we say about limitations of the study and conclusions. This paper can’t be considered in isolation but should be taken with the more than dozen other studies that continue to document serious health problems related to mining.

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The four lawyers didn't get back to Ward, but a spokeswoman from the National Mining Association did, telling him that she didn't think anyone was really implying that a failure to look at inbreeding rates discredited the study. Maybe not, but the incident certainly won't sit well with opponents of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia.

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=---<ul style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; position: relative; list-style: outside none none; font-size: 0.85em; color: rgb(94, 89, 73);"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px; position: relative;">Hendrix College, B.A. (1975)</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px; position: relative;">University of Minnesota Law School, J.D. (1988)</li></ul>William L. Anderson has practiced for 25 years in product liability, toxic tort, and environmental matters that typically involve significant and complex medical and scientific issues and national coordination roles. He also serves as the vice-chair of the firm's Torts Group.The range of cases Mr. Anderson has managed extends across birth defect litigation, alleged toxic exposure to substances in environmental media, product risk and crisis management, cutting-edge asbestos causation and expert exclusion issues, and national asbestos case management. His work for Fortune 50 companies includes a major crop protection product litigation and crisis management effort involving EPA, state and federal litigation, and an extensive claims process. Subject-wise, his expertise includes genetic syndrome evidence, blood testing and other assessments of exposure, pharmacokinetics, causation standards, and a wide array of epidemiology and similar literature. He has addressed causation issues regarding many substances, including benzene, dioxins, TCE, vinyl chloride, and asbestos.Mr. Anderson's significant wins include:<ul style="margin: 7px 0px 15px 25px; padding: 0px; position: relative; color: rgb(93, 88, 70); font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.44px;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Five different state dismissals cutting short the Ritalin/ADHD litigation funded by tobacco and HMO attorneys. The litigation alleged the fraudulent development of the ADHD diagnosis by the APA and Novartis. The five cases were dismissed on Rule 9(b), first amendment, and other grounds in California, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Florida, and Texas.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Daubert exclusion of causation experts in West Virginia birth defects litigation involving a crop protection product. These cases involved extensive science discovery, including plaintiffs' litigation-based testing. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court's exclusion.Bourne v. E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co., 189 F.Supp.2d 482 (W.D. Va. 2002), aff'd 85 Fed. Appx. 964 (4th Cir. 2004).</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Follow-up exclusion of exposure and causation experts in similar birth defect litigation in Delaware, affirmed by the Delaware Supreme Court. This litigation turned in part on state-of-the art genetics testing and discovery documenting genetically-induced syndromes in several plaintiffs. Bowen v. E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., 2005 WL 1952859 (Del. Super., June 23, 2005), aff'd 906 A.2d 787(Del. Supr. 2006).</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Summary judgment rejection of expert medical monitoring theories attempting to require $500 million in medical monitoring costs for a purported class allegedly subjected to dioxin exposures from a train derailment and fire. The court ended the case prior to class certification based on insufficient science, an unusual and early resolution that avoided the class determination. Mann v. CSX Transportation, 2009 WL 3766056 (N.D. Ohio, Nov. 10, 2009), aff'd 656 F.3d 359 (6th Cir. 2011).</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Exclusion of experts alleging "above normal" blood levels of dioxins and other substances, leading in part to the dismissal of a long-running environmental tort litigation based on groundwater and air exposure. Adams v. Cooper Indus., 2007 WL 1805586 (E.D. Ky., June 21, 2007); Adams v. Cooper Indus., 2007 WL 2219212 (E.D. Ky., July 30, 2007).</li></ul>Mr. Anderson has extensive experience with expert strategy and science litigation management and trial preparation. He has directed a number of Daubert/Frye expert discovery and briefing efforts that have led to the exclusion of unreliable plaintiff expert opinions in low-dose and other matters. He manages national dockets in asbestos litigation for Fortune 500 companies, including trial and motions strategy.Mr. Anderson has authored amicus briefs on critical scientific evidentiary issues in the highest state courts of Texas, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Virginia, and New York and other intermediate courts. Those briefs contributed to decisions:<ul style="margin: 7px 0px 15px 25px; padding: 0px; position: relative; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.44px;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Rejecting the any exposure theory as a basis for causation in Pennsylvania, Texas, and Maryland asbestos litigation. Betz v. Pneumo-Abex, LLC,44 A.3d 27(Pa. 2012); Borg-Warner Corp. v. Flores, 232 S.W.3d 765 (Tex. 2007) (citing amici brief); Smith v. Kelly-Moore Paint Co., No. 2-08-198-CV, 2010 WL 682343 (Tex. App.-Fort Worth, Feb. 25, 2010).</li><li style="color: rgb(93, 88, 70); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Rejecting plaintiff assertion that physicians should be exempt from Frye review of medical causation testimony. Montgomery Mutual Ins. Co. v. Chesson, 923 A.2d 939 (Md. 2007).</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Requiring a dose assessment sufficient to prove causation in a low-dose benzene exposure case involving a gas station attendant. Parker v. Mobil Oil Corp., 824 N.Y.S.2d 584, 591 (N.Y. 2006).</li><li style="color: rgb(93, 88, 70); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Affirming the Virginia rule that each product must be sufficient to cause disease and that plaintiff experts must identify a causative dose. Ford Motor Co. v. Boomer, S.E.2d , 2013 WL 119708 (Va., Jan. 10, 2013).</li><li style="color: rgb(93, 88, 70); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Rejecting an attempt to assign liability for third-party insulation used with defendant's product in the context of asbestos causation. Merrill v. Leslie Controls, 101 Cal. Rptr.3d 614 (Cal. App. 2d Dist.2009).</li></ul>Mr. Anderson's two articles on causation theory, <a target="blank" href="http://www.crowell.com/documents/Asbestos-Causation-and-Expert-Testimony.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; outline: 0px; color: rgb(158, 39, 23); text-decoration: none;">"The 'Any Exposure' Theory: An Unsound Basis for Asbestos Causation and Expert Testimony," Southwestern University Law Review</a> (January 2008) (M. Behrens & W. Anderson), and William L. Anderson et al., <a target="blank" href="http://www.crowell.com/files/The-Any-Exposure-Theory-Round-II.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; outline: 0px; color: rgb(158, 39, 23); text-decoration: none;">The "Any Exposure" Theory Round II: Court Review of Minimal Exposure Expert Testimony in Asbestos and Toxic Tort Litigation Since 2008,</a> 22 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 1 (2012), have been widely circulated and utilized by defense counsel across the country to prosecute motions aimed at low-dose exposure theories. He also writes frequently on the intersection of law and science and has published articles, among other places, in the Michigan Journal of Law Reform, and he has served as a peer reviewer for the Journal of the American Medical Association.Mr. Anderson is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, and is a member of the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth and Federal Circuits, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.Representative Matters:<ul style="margin: 7px 0px 15px 25px; padding: 0px; position: relative; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.44px;"><li style="color: rgb(93, 88, 70); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Trial and managing counsel for a series of product cases alleging birth defects from exposure to a major fungicide; cases involve significant toxicology, teratology, and genetics issues, international discovery and foreign law.</li><li style="color: rgb(93, 88, 70); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Development of Daubert evidence and briefing leading to the exclusion of causation and exposure experts in two key fungicide/birth defect sets of cases. See Bourne v. E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., 189 F. Supp. 2d 482 (S.D.W.V. 2002), aff'd 85 Fed. Appx. 964 (4th Cir. 2004);Bowen v. E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., 2005 WL 1952859 (Del. Super. Ct., June 23, 2005),aff'd., 906 A.2d 787 (Del. 2006).</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Expert and science management of extensive environmental litigation alleging multiple diseases (including diabetes, endometriosis, non-Hodgkins lymphoma, and cryptogenic cirrhosis of the liver) from TCE, vinyl chloride, dioxins, furans, and PCBs. Assisted in briefing leading to Daubertdecisions excluding blood-testing and specific causation expert testimony. See Adams v. Cooper Indus., 2007 WL 2219212 (E.D. Ky 2007); Adams v. Cooper Indus., 2007 WL 1805586 (E.D.Ky. 2007).</li><li style="color: rgb(93, 88, 70); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Development of the expert strategy and briefing leading to the summary judgment dismissal of a medical monitoring class action claiming dioxin exposure from a railroad crash and fire. The unusual ruling preceding the class certification hearing and was based on plaintiffs' flawed expert approach. Mann v. CSX Transportation, 2009 WL3766056 (N.D. Ohio 2009), aff'd 656 F.3d 359 (6th Cir. 2011).</li><li style="color: rgb(93, 88, 70); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Development of expert strategy leading to exclusion of long-time asbestos plaintiff expert any exposure causation opinions in Washington and Pennsylvania state courts, and amicus briefing supporting similar appellate rulings in Texas, New York, and Pennsylvania.</li><li style="color: rgb(93, 88, 70); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Co-managed defense of a series of consumer class action lawsuits brought by tobacco and HMO attorneys alleging fraud in the development of the diagnosis for attention deficit disorder. Five litigations in five states were dismissed through court rulings or voluntarily, ending the litigation prior to any signficant discovery.</li><li style="color: rgb(93, 88, 70); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">National coordinating counsel for fortune 500 heavy equipment company in nationwide asbestos litigation, including expert and science strategy and trial network oversight.</li><li style="color: rgb(93, 88, 70); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">National coordination counsel for major telecommunications company in asbestos litigation, including development of historic testimony, fact and expert witnesses, and trial and expert strategy.</li><li style="color: rgb(93, 88, 70); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">National coordinating counsel for fortune 500 chemical company in series of crop injury and fraud lawsuits, including defending against aggressive discovery attacks and asserting science defenses.</li><li style="color: rgb(93, 88, 70); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Counsel for county government in Florida against pipeline company seeking to develop pipeline in sensitive environmental areas; and assisting county in achieving pollutant reduction from Georgia-based sources of nutrient pollution to protect county lakes.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Pro bono work in the Fair Housing and Americans with Disabilities Act field, including Fifth Circuit victory supporting Alzheimer's' patient housing, achieving modifications to sixty fast-food franchise stores in the District of Columbia, and significant settlement on behalf of woman with multiple sclerosis against a major area landlord.</li></ul>=

bsClifford J. Zatz chairs the firm's Product Liability & Torts Group and is the group's senior trial lawyer.For almost thirty years, Cliff has defended personal injury and property damage cases involving consumer, occupational, and environmental exposure to chemicals and other products. He has represented clients in individual, class action, and community-wide exposure cases. He has tried cases arising out of environmental exposure to trichloroethylene, vinyl chloride, PCBs, and dioxins; formaldehyde in home insulation; and occupational exposure to benzene and isocyanates.Cliff was on the defense team in one of the earliest lawsuits alleging personal injury from exposure to trichloroethylene in groundwater. Thirty plaintiffs' claims of neurological injury, immune dysfunction, and "chronic systemic chemical poisoning" were resolved in a three-day summary jury trial in federal district court in Michigan.Together with Louisville co-counsel, Cliff defended thousands of claims brought by workers and neighbors at a Superfund site in southeastern Kentucky. After a month-long jury trial, the team won a defense verdict against three coal mining companies that sought $140 million in lost profits as a result of their proximity to the site. The National Law Journal recognized the victory in its annual list of the country's top defense verdicts. The next year, Cliff and his team defended bellwether plantiff claims of multiple myeloma, childhood leukemia, and other illnesses in a 52-day jury trial that led to a mass settlement of more than 550 plaintiffs' cases. Later, he and his co-counsel won a week-long arbitration of a tort of outrageous conduct action and, in another bellwether plaintiff case, won summary judgment after excluding all of the causation experts under Daubert.Cliff defended two of the nation's largest chemical manufacturers against twenty-five plaintiffs' claims of occupational asthma as a result of exposure to isocyanates and ethylene diamine in the manufacture of the Gore-Tex® waterproof membrane. After a nine-week trial, the jury returned fifty defense verdicts. Cliff successfully defended the verdicts twice on appeal in Kennedy v. Mobay Corp., 579 A.2d 1191 (Md. App. 1991), aff'd per curiam, 601 A.2d 123 ( Md. 1992), which established the "sophisticated user" defense as the law of Maryland. In another sophisticated user case, he represented manufacturers of rubber solvent in a four-week trial of three leukemia death cases arising in a Virginia tire manufacturing plant.  More recently, Cliff has:<ul style="margin: 7px 0px 15px 25px; padding: 0px; position: relative; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.44px;"><li style="color: rgb(93, 88, 70); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Won a two-week trial before a Florida administrative law judge, defeating a community's challenge to an environmental site assessment and remedial action plan.</li><li style="color: rgb(93, 88, 70); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Successfully opposed, in a four-day evidentiary hearing and on appeal, certification of a class action seeking lifetime medical monitoring for chronic beryllium disease.  </li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Led a trial team in defense of the first citizens' suit brought against a wind energy facility under the Endangered Species Act. This unusual "green v. green" trial received national media attention and was reported on the front page of The Washington Post.</li><li style="color: rgb(93, 88, 70); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Won dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction, after an evidentiary hearing, of a wrongful death case brought against a Kuwaiti government contractor. Baragona v. Kuwait Gulf Link Transport Co., 691 F. Supp.2d 1346 (N.D. Ga. 2007), aff'd, 594 F.3d 852 (11th Cir. 2010), cert. denied, 130 S.Ct. 3473 (2010).</li><li style="color: rgb(93, 88, 70); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Defended lawsuits in Florida in which more than 300 plaintiffs alleged personal injury, diminution of property value, and emotional distress as a result of occupational and environmental exposure to chlorinated solvents and beryllium.</li><li style="color: rgb(93, 88, 70); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Served on the national coordinating counsel team in asbestos litigation for a major telecommunications company.</li></ul>Cliff has advised and represented companies on product liability issues involving automotive products, alcoholic beverages, cellular telephones, and food products. He has also handled lawsuits in such areas as defamation, intellectual property, telecommunications, and government contracts. He has defended patent cases involving digital cellular telephone technology, contact lens solution, and the design patent on the "scrunchie" fabric-covered ponytail holder. He won an international trademark dispute, before the American Arbitration Association, on behalf of a leading Italian men's clothing company. He successfully represented one of the country's largest engineering firms in a product liability and breach of contract action against the United States and its contractors under the Federal Tort Claims Act and the Tucker Act. Cliff has also litigated OSHA, worker's compensation, and labor and employment discrimination cases before trial and appellate courts, arbitrators, and administrative agencies.Cliff has served for thirteen years as a faculty member for the NITA Washington, D.C. regional program in Building Trial Skills. He has been recognized in the area of Mass Tort Litigation by The Best Lawyers In America annually since 2008.Cliff is a member of the firm's Diversity Council. He has done pro bono work in such areas as fair housing, Feemster v. BSA Limited Partnership, 471 F. Supp. 2d 87(D.D.C. 2007), aff'd, 548 F. 3d 1063 (D.C. Cir. 2008); discrimination against the HIV-positive in adoption; and the recognition of a cause of action for negligent handgun storage, Jupin v. Kask, 447 Mass. 141 (2006).bs mtntopMonica M. Welt is a counsel in Crowell & Moring's Product Liability & Torts Group whose practice focuses on environmental tort litigation, mass tort litigation, product liability risk management, and recall counseling. She has experience with class actions and multidistrict proceedings, and has represented clients in a range of industries, including chemicals, automotive, petroleum, power, steel, lumber, agriculture, railroad, children's products, and aviation. In both 2013 and 2014, Monica was selected by her peers as a "Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers Rising Star" for class actions and toxic torts. In 2014, Monica was selected to be a member of the <a href="http://www.crowell.com/files/Law360-Product-Liability-Editorial-Advisory-Board.pdf" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; outline: 0px; color: rgb(158, 39, 23); text-decoration: none;">Product Liability Law360</a> Editorial Advisory Board.<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; position: relative; color: rgb(93, 88, 70); font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 19.44px;">Environmental Toxic Torts</h3>Monica has defended numerous cases involving alleged "neighborhood" exposure to contaminants in groundwater, soil and air from petroleum, chlorinated solvents, PAHs, beryllium and mixed chemicals. Prior to joining Crowell & Moring, Monica was a member of the national coordinating defense counsel team for two major petroleum producers in the multi-district litigation involving MTBE contamination of groundwater before Judge Shira Scheindlin. Currently, Monica is part of a team defending four lawsuits in which more than 350 plaintiffs are alleging personal injury, diminished property value, emotional distress, and entitlement to medical monitoring as a result of occupational and environmental exposure to chlorinated solvents and beryllium.As part of her practice, Monica has developed extensive experience utilizing scientific experts in client cases. Some notable experiences include:<ul style="margin: 7px 0px 15px 25px; padding: 0px; position: relative; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.44px;"><li style="color: rgb(93, 88, 70); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Working with hydrogeologists and biologists to assess impacts of oil refinery effluent on a river estuary;</li><li style="color: rgb(93, 88, 70); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Coordinating an expert team in the creation and implementation of an industry-sponsored long-term health effects study for a ground water contaminant;</li><li style="color: rgb(93, 88, 70); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Developing a team of hydrologists and real-estate experts to assess flooding and property impacts near a railroad right-of-way in a class action defense resulting from a major flooding event;</li><li style="color: rgb(93, 88, 70); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Assisting industry experts in preparing presentations for the EPA on chemicals under IRIS review;</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Managing a team of epidemiologists, industrial hygienists, and public health specialists to evaluate claims of beryllium exposure.</li></ul>Currently, Monica is part of a team of environmental and tort lawyers who are monitoring tort litigation and regulatory developments involving hydraulic fracturing (aka hydrofracking). This team is developing strategies to assist companies working in the Marcellus Shale region to mitigate and reduce tort liability arising from the current rapid expansion of unconventional natural gas exploration and production activities, including hydrofracking, in populated areas.<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; position: relative; color: rgb(93, 88, 70); font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 19.44px;">Product Liability Risk Management</h3>In addition to litigating product liability cases, Monica advises clients on a full range of product liability and risk management issues from both the pre-launch and post-launch perspective. With a focus on industrial and commercial products, she counsels clients on labeling, recall, and regulatory compliance issues. Her years of experience with class action product liability defense enable her to develop strategies for clients to avoid or minimize future class action litigation. Some representative matters are:<ul style="margin: 7px 0px 15px 25px; padding: 0px; position: relative; color: rgb(93, 88, 70); font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.44px;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Assembling and leading a team to develop and launch a complex product claims management process to investigate and resolve more than 58,000 claims of alleged damage from a commercial herbicide.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Counseling a major petroleum manufacturer to develop recall avoidance, relabeling and communication strategies that helped avert an international product recall.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Conducting a warranty assessment of a major home systems component manufacturer to develop and incorporate class action avoidance mechanisms into the consumer purchase agreement.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Coordinating a post-launch labeling and advertising regulatory analysis for a Fortune 15 company, which included developing a multi-national recall strategy and press implementation plan.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Advising manufacturing and importing clients on labeling and warning compliance relevant to California's Proposition 65 and other state reporting obligations.</li></ul>Monica also leverages her knowledge regarding consumer products and chemicals to assist clients with matters regarding TSCA, DEA, FDA, CPSC, EPA, and NHTSA regulations. Recent work has included drafting challenges to EPA statements under the Data Quality Act, working with manufacturing clients to ensure compliance with the Controlled Substances Act, and counseling clients on potential tort liability arising from the use of certain flame retardant chemicals.<h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; position: relative; color: rgb(93, 88, 70); font-weight: normal; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 19.44px;">General Civil Litigation</h3>In addition to her toxic tort practice, Monica's civil litigation practice has included such diverse matters as a London-based arbitration of a contract dispute between international brokerage firms, the successful resolution of a multi-million dollar contract and estate dispute, and the pro-bono representation of an asthmatic child exposed to extensive mold infestation at a local school. She has experience in all phases of litigation and pre-trial preparation, has briefed cases at the state and appellate level, and has argued in Florida, Maryland and D.C. courts.Monica received two bachelor of arts cum laude from The Ohio State University, in classical humanities and English literature, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She earned her law degree in 2001 from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was a three-time member of the school's internationally ranked Jessup Moot Court team. Prior to joining Crowell & Moring, she was an associate with Dewey Ballantine LLP.==

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Antitrust: The Antitrust Group represents major players in critical sectors including telecommunications, healthcare, agriculture and technology. Recent deals include serving as co-lead counsel in the regulatory review of AT&T’s $39 billion acquisition of TMobile, and representing DuPont in its $6.3 billion acquisition of Danisco. Their robust litigation docket includes defending AT&T in the iPhones class actions, recovering hundreds of millions of dollars for clients in the DRAM industry, and defense of CSX against price-fixing claims related to fuel surcharges. They also handle significant government investigations.

Corporate/Securities: The Corporate/Securities Practice is transaction-oriented, focusing predominately on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, corporate securities and finance, investment funds, commercial finance, commercial contracts and outsourcing arrangements, intellectual property arrangements, financial institutions regulatory advice and general corporate counseling. The group also has significant experience with both national and cross-border corporate transactions.

Environment & Natural Resources: This group has built a national reputation with corporations, trade associations and others due to its many successful efforts to shape regulatory policies and litigate disputes for clients in the mining, oil and gas, agriculture, forest products, alternative energy,defense and related sectors in areas such as water and air quality, public land use, endangered species, site cleanup,pesticides, health and safety, and consumer products regulation.

Government Contracts: The Government Contracts Practice has a 40 year history of unrivaled excellence, depth and success. The world’s largest and most prominent contractors, and small to mid-size companies, turn to the firm’s lawyers who are industry leaders. The group offers a full range of government contract advice, including bid protests, claims, counseling and litigation.

Healthcare: The Healthcare Practice provides a comprehensive range of litigation, transactional and counseling services to clients nationwide. From hospitals and hospital systems, to payors, managed care companies, pharmaceutical companies, academic medical centers, government contractors, and established and start-up medical device and biotech companies. Clients rely on the firm’s experience and interdisciplinary approach to provide strategic solutions to their complex legal challenges.

Insurance/Reinsurance: The firm represents clients in a wide variety of coverage and reinsurance matters and has experience in, property and casualty, life, healthcare, accident health, management liability, and financial lines insurance. The group handles complex insurance litigation, negotiations, mediations, ADR, and insurance bankruptcy matters.

Intellectual Property: The firmworks with many of the world’s leading technology companies on complex intellectual property matters. The full-service IP practice represents clients in both defending and asserting infringement claims in federal courts, as well as before the U.S. International Trade Commission. With more than 25 registered patent attorneys and agents, the firm is also one of the nation’s leading players in the patent procurement arena.

International Investment, Trade & Arbitration: The group provides a complete suite of services dedicated to assisting each challenge of international business. The firm’s attorneys and advisors are experts in guiding governments, businesses and individuals as they structure investments, and work across borders to trade goods and services, open new markets, and settle disputes.

Litigation: Litigation is a core strength and principal foundation of the firm. The firm has experienced litigators including seasoned trial lawyers in most of its practice areas, and in each of its offices, including former federal prosecutors, class action lawyers, securities litigators and commercial litigators. They practice in trial and appellate courts in the state and federal systems, international and administrative tribunals, as well as arbitration and other ADR settings. The group offers depth and expertise in class actions, complex business disputes, financial and other corporate governance litigation, and international litigation across many industries and for the biggest companies.

White-Collar & Regulatory Enforcement: The firm has a wide-ranging practice that includes significant matters across the spectrum of government investigations and defense of enforcement actions. The group has substantial depth of trial expertise, along with pragmatic counseling and negotiating capabilities. The practice includes defense of clients under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, qui tam actions brought under the False Claims Act, securities and commodities fraud, environmental crime, and public corruption and civil rights.

crew report b2 rev door:

Ann R. Klee – Ann R. Klee was general counsel for the EPA from 2004 through 2005.104

After leaving the administration in 2005, Ms. Klee became a partner at Crowell and Moring,

LLP, working in the natural resources and environmental group.105 Ms. Klee is a registered

lobbyist for Crowell and Moring,106 and has lobbied on behalf of American Chemistry Council,107 a trade group that represents the chemical manufacturing industry;108 Peabody

Energy,109 the world’s largest private-sector coal company;110 and Dow Chemical Company.111

Stephanie N. Daigle – Stephanie N. Daigle served at the EPA as associate administrator for

policy, economics and innovation from 2005 until 2007.96 Prior to that, from 2001 to 2005, she

worked in the EPA’s office of policy, economics and innovation.97

After leaving the administration in 2007, Ms. Daigle joined C & M Capitolink, a subsidiary of

Crowell and Moring’s Public Policy Practice Group.98 Ms. Daigle is a registered lobbyist for C

& M Capitolink and has lobbied on behalf of UtahAmerican Energy, Inc,99 a mining company;100

Dow Chemical Company;101 and Alliance Resource Partners,102 a coal company.103

Robert Meyers – Robert Meyers was an assistant administrator for air and radiation at the EPA

from 2007 to 2008.117 During his tenure, he helped adopt an ozone standard thought to be weaker

than what was recommended by the agency’s independent panel of scientific advisors.118 Prior

to that, in 1997, while serving as air pollution council for the House Energy and Commerce

Committee, he spearheaded a debate aimed at weakening the EPA’s ozone standards. 119

After leaving the administration in 2008, Mr. Meyers joined Crowell and Moring, LLP, where he

is a senior counsel specializing in Clean Air Act and climate change.120 Mr. Meyers is currently a

registered lobbyist for Crowell and Moring and has lobbied on the behalf of Gerdau Ameristeel

Corporation,121 the nation’s fourth largest steel producer.122