Joan Biskupic, Janet Roberts and John Shiffman, The Echo Chamber: A small group of lawyers and its outsized influence at the U.S. Supreme Court. Reuters Investigates, 8 December 2014. 3-Part series. Part 1, The Elites: “A cadre of well-connected attorneys has honed the art of getting the Supreme Court to take up cases–and business is capitalizing on their expertise.” Part 2, The Firms: “The corporate tilt of the court’s specialty bar leaves consumers and workers with a smaller pool of top attorneys.” Part 3, The Advocates: “The key role of arguing before the high court is concentrating in fewer and fewer hands. Many top orators once worked for justices–and some socialize with them, too.”
December 8, 2014
The Echo Chamber: A small group of lawyers and its outsized influence at the U.S. Supreme Court
October 28, 2014
Lobbyists, Bearing Gifts, Pursue Attorneys General
Eric Lipton, Lobbyists, Bearing Gifts, Pursue Attorneys General. The New York Times, 28 October 2014. “Attorneys general are now the object of aggressive pursuit by lobbyists and lawyers who use campaign contributions, personal appeals at lavish corporate-sponsored conferences and other means to push them to drop investigations, change policies, negotiate favorable settlements or pressure federal regulators, an investigation by The New York Times has found.”
“Courting Favor: ‘The People’s Lawyers.’ Articles in this series examine the explosion in lobbying of state attorneys general by corporate interests and the millions in campaign donations they now provide.” Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.