Legal Eagle

Massachusetts Senate candidate, Elizabeth Warren, has a very unique riposte to Senator Scott Brown's charge about just how little she stands up for the common man.  She now says that, even though she was a lawyer (or perhaps a legal consultant?) for The Travelers Insurance when it was a defendant in a class-action lawsuit by a plaintiff group of asbestos victims, "[s]he pointed out that that plaintiffs’ lawyers in the case and asbestos workers’ unions have said her advocacy in the case helped protect the settlement for victims" (see: boston.com Story).

Perhaps it is true that, even though Elizabeth Warren was contracted to help the defendant, The Travelers, and took a hefty fee for this legal effort, she was "secretly" working for the plaintiffs.  How can this be?  Either she is misrepresenting what she did in this case ... or she violated her legal ethical standards when she tilted toward the plaintiffs when representing and taking money from the defendant.  This is clearly a major conflict of interests ... and should cause a further look by the Harvard Law School and/or the Massachusetts Bar Association.  Ha Ha!!