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ATRA Legal Reform Champion:
Leah Lorber
Leah Lorber is
Director, Public Policy, in the Washington, DC office of
GlaxoSmithKline. Formerly of counsel in the Washington, DC office of
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Leah devoted her practice to advocating for
fair and balanced civil justice reforms at the federal and state levels.
As co-counsel to ATRA, she 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" 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, her articles on legal reform matters have been published 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, Esq.
Director, Public Policy
GlaxoSmithKline
1050 K
Street NW
Suite 800
Washington, D.C. 20001
202.715.1014
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