Elizabeth Warren's opponents have sought to portray her as a hypocrite for taking on well-paid legal work for corporate clients. But records from a 2006 case provide new context.
Warren is in third place in national polls, behind former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. Buttigieg, in fourth nationally, recently surpassed Warren in polls in the early contest states of Iowa and New Hampshire.that Warren was sought out by the California attorney Lee Sherman in 2006.
But she then pulled out of the potentially profitable arrangement after speaking with employees of the National Consumer Law Center, a consumer advocacy group that defends the poor and other disadvantaged people. The NCLC had expressed reservations about the settlement, according to email chains and affidavits included in the records.
Notably, the case would have likely been among the most well-paid work of Warren's career, based on public information.
Carter wrote that the $5.4 million in attorney's fees Sherman and his team asked for was "so grossly out of proportion to class members' probable aggregate recovery as to suggest a strong possibility of impropriety.""Elizabeth worked with NCLC for years, and once they laid out why they were opposed to this settlement, she declined to take the case," Chris Hayden, a Warren spokesperson, said in a statement.
"I have no present plans to serve as an expert for NCLC, but I am free to do so," Warren added. "If I decide that I want to serve as their expert, then I will do so."
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