Lieawatha is a hard core leftist, therefore a citizen of the world.
She don't need no permission from genocidal white men.
Posted on 09/24/2012 6:33:15 AM PDT by kristinn
Maintained private law practice at Cambridge office for over a decade but not licensed in Massachusetts
The debate last Thursday night between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren covered ground mostly known to voters.
But there was one subject most people watching probably did not know about, Elizabeth Warren’s private legal representation of The Travelers Insurance Company in an asbestos-related case.
Brown brought the point up late in the debate, and hammered it: (video)
Warren attempted to deny her role, and referred to a Boston Globe article, but the Globe article supports Brown’s account. The Globe article indicated the representation was for a period of three years and Warren was paid $212,000. The case resulted in a Supreme Court victory for Travelers arising out of a bankruptcy case in New York.
Whatever the political implications of the exchange, Warren’s representation of Travelers raises another big potential problem for Warren.
Warren represented not just Travelers, but numerous other companies starting in the late 1990s working out of and using her Harvard Law School office in Cambridge, which she listed as her office of record on briefs filed with various courts. Warren, however, never has been licensed to practice law in Massachusetts.
As detailed below, there are at least two provisions of Massachusetts law Warren may have violated. First, on a regular and continuing basis she used her Cambridge office for the practice of law without being licensed in Massachusetts. Second, in addition to operating an office for the practice of law without being licensed in Massachusetts, Warren actually practiced law in Massachusetts without being licensed.
Warren refused to disclose the full extent of her private law practice when asked by The Boston Globe. If Warren denies that she has practiced law in Massachusetts without a license, Warren should disclose the full extent of her private law practice. The public has a right to assess whether Warren has failed to comply with the most basic requirement imposed on others, the need to become a member of the Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in order to practice law in and from Massachusetts.
1. Warren Is Not Licensed To Practice Law In Massachusetts
Warren is not licensed to practice law in Massachusetts. Warren’s name does not turn up on a search of the Board of Bar Overseers attorney search website (searches just by last name or using Elizabeth Herring also do not turn up any relevant entries).
SNIP
But her issue is that she was sitting in Massachusetts doing the work. The issue you raise is that a lawyer sitting in, for instance, New York City, may undertake a corporate transaction or work with local counsel to litigate a case in say, Texas. That happens all the time. But what doesn’t happen all the time is that someone goes to New York and opens an office there and practices law from that office without being barred in New York. That is a problem.
He should know
well I don’t know, if she was admitted temporarily pro hac vice and the litigation took 3 years and there was just Travelers..............maybe you are correct, I don’t know all the circumstances
Yup.
She represents the folks at the local pow-wow.
It’s a job protection type arrangement. Kansas wants to keep Missouri lawyers from waltzing in and taking their clients and vice versa. It is really silly IMHO. If you are licensed in any state, you ought to be okay anywhere, I think. But no, the local bar associations take issue with that.
PING!
Lieawatha is a hard core leftist, therefore a citizen of the world.
She don't need no permission from genocidal white men.
Neither office in New Jersey could state whether her license was continuously active until her resignation because the computer only shows the current status, so I have made the request in writing as instructed. By resigning her New Jersey license earlier this month, Warren made it more difficult for the public to determine her pre-resignation status.
By all available information, Warren never has been licensed in Massachusetts, but at varying times has had active law licenses in Texas and New Jersey, although currently she is not licensed in either jurisdiction. It is unclear whether during the years she represented Travelers and others Warren was actively licensed anywhere.
I emailed the Warren campaign’s spokesperson, Alethea Harney, after the debate Thursday night requesting a list of all jurisdictions in which Warren was licensed to practice law. I requested that the information be provided by Friday morning specifically so I could include the campaign’s response, but I received no response.
She she evolving from Lie-a-watha to Lawyer-watha with forked tongue.
I'm not so sure, I think it depends on the case. If I'm in federal court, I'll agree. But if I pass away and the state seizes all my assets, leaving my family out in the cold because my lawyer didn't know about my states particular legal twists when he drafted my will, well, I'd be pretty upset from the cloud I'm sitting on.
Did you read the lengthy, well-documented article?
Lie-a-watha White Cloud uses legal smoke signals to obfuscate her resume' and family tree. She has successfully shape-shifting into an ass.
From Brietbart, neither the Warren campaign nor the firm she worked for in the Travelers case will say where she was licensed.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/24/Does-Elizabeth-Warren-Have-a-Law-License-Problem
Did the run the names Fauxcohontas and Liawatha?
If it weren’t for the fact that leftie professors can get away with just about anything, I’d think she’d also have a problem with Harvard. I don’t think it’s a normal practice to use an academic office to do commercial law practice.
Sure, you could take an occasional phone call when you happened to be there, but to use it as a commercial office and even to advertise it as such strikes me as a major conflict of interest.
And what does this say about Harvard’s status as a non-profit organization?
State laws and even state constitutions vary quite a lot, that is why a Lawyer must be licensed by the state to practice in that state.
Yes but please remember she has 1/60 (or was it 1/250?) Indian blood. That exempts her from laws that us mortals must abide by.
Demoncrap elites always operate on the basis of “the laws are
for thee and not for me”.
The Barbara Boxer of the east worked hard for that title. Oh, wait.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
