WHY WONT CONGRESS SCRUTINIZE CRIMINAL LAWYERS?
Crimes of Lerach, Scruggs & Weiss Akin to Those of Fallen Corporate Execs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT:Darren McKinney dmckinney@atra.org 202-682-0084 Washington, DC, March 20, 2008 — American Tort Reform Association director of communications Darren McKinney today reacted to news that Melvyn Weiss has now joined two other prominent plaintiffs attorneys his former law partner William Lerach and Mississippi legend Richard Dickie Scruggs in pleading guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy. These guys have given a whole new meaning to the term criminal lawyers, McKinney deadpanned. Yet the trial lawyers association to which theyve provided so much financial support over the years wants to ignore their crimes as it tries to keep the media exclusively transfixed on the alleged shortcomings of wealth- and job-creating corporations and businesses. If the national trial lawyers association wants to be taken seriously when it condemns the actions of big, bad corporate executives, it ought to
