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ATRA Legal Reform Champion:
Leah Lorber
Leah Lorber, of counsel in
the Washington, DC office of Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, devotes her
practice to advocating for fair and balanced civil justice reforms at
the federal and state levels. As co-counsel to ATRA, Leah successfully
directed efforts to thwart a high-profile fishing expedition into ATRA's
membership and financial records, brought by plaintiffs' lawyers in the
notorious "Judicial Hellhole" trade of Madison County, Illinois. As a
lobbyist, she has worked to secure the enactment of federal civil
liability protections in such laws as the Homeland Security Act, the
Support Anti-terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act (SAFETY
Act), and the Teacher Liability Protection Act.
Leah has presented the
views of numerous amici curiae in important punitive damages and
products liability cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and state courts
of last resort, including State Farm v. Campbell and Key Pharmaceuticals
Co. v. Edwards during the Supreme Court's October 2002 term. A former
journalist, she has published her writings on legal reform matters in
forums as diverse as the Harvard Journal on Legislation and
www.overlawyered.com. She received her J.D. magna cum laude from the
Indiana University-Bloomington School of Law, where she was Articles
Editor for the Indiana Law Journal.
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Leah Lorber
Shook, Hardy
& Bacon LLP
Hamilton Square, 600 14th Street, NW,
Suite 800
Washington, DC
20005-2004
202-639-5638
llorber@shb.com
www.shb.com
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