Warren Helped Dow Chemical Limit Its Liability Against Breast Implant Victims (Congressmen, attorneys)

[DRob4JC]

This was released in the major heat of Trump offering some Congressmen the option to leave if they don't like it here. So it never saw the light of day. Other corporate cases are mentioned in the article.

Dow breast implant case spotlights Elizabeth Warren’s work helping big corporations navigate bankruptcies

When Dow Corning faced thousands of lawsuits in the 1990s from women saying they had become sick from the company’s silicone gel breast implants, its parent firm, Dow Chemical, turned to one of the country’s leading experts in corporate bankruptcies: Professor Elizabeth Warren.

Warren, now a Democratic presidential candidate, has never publicly discussed her role in the case. Her campaign said that she was “a consultant to ensure adequate compensation for women who claimed injury” from the implants and that a $2.3 billion fund for the women was started “thanks in part to Elizabeth’s efforts.”

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“She was on the wrong side of the table,” said Sybil Goldrich, who co-founded a support group for women with implants and battled the companies for years. Goldrich said Dow Corning and its parent “used every trick in the book” to limit the size of payouts to women. The companies, she added, “were not easy to deal with at all.”

[Cida]

I'm not going to get worked up about someone who may have been "on the wrong side of the table." which will have happened to most politicians in the course of a long career. Especially lawyers who are sometimes stuck with situations they don't like.

I find her preferable to people who have spent most of their careers on the wrong side of the table.

[Ringo1]

Well, that is what defense counsel does. Many attorneys 'switch sides' at some point in their career. Defense attorneys change to plaintiff and vice versa.

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Originally Posted by Ringo1

Well, that is what defense counsel does. Many attorneys 'switch sides' at some point in their career. Defense attorneys change to plaintiff and vice versa.

RIGHT....That tells me that you have NO VALUES at all. It is about YOU and the benefit to YOU.

I took professional jobs....that did not meet my “values”. As soon as a logical break point occurred I left....thanked them for the job, but I was not coming back.

Values....in the end you either have them or don’t.

I suspect she doesn’t.

With Warren....that is what drove her and her “Indian” blood. She might have grown up, she might have grown a pair, she might have suddenly discovered “values”.

But as a voter.....I am not taking chances.