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: Senator Elizabeth Warren earned $1.9 million from legal work when she was a law professor before she ran for office, her campaign said on Sunday, offering a detailed look at her income over 30 years as she and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg battle over campaign transparency.now lists more than 50 cases since 1985 on which she worked as a lawyer, mediator, expert witness or consultant.
Each case includes a description and exactly how much Warren was compensated, although she notes she doesn’t have records from five cases and she worked four cases pro bono, for which she would not have received any compensation. She doesn’t have compensation records for the Getty Oil case, for example.
Warren listed eight cases in which she submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court on her own behalf and was not paid by a client to do so. in which she represented Travelers Insurance in an attempt to preserve a trust for asbestos victims. She won the case at the Supreme Court in 2009, and she was paid $212,335 for her work, which had already been disclosed in previous financial documents.
Warren also made six figures—$186,859.59— representing the department store Bergner’s after it filed for bankruptcy in 1991. : The disclosure comes after Buttigieg’s campaign called on Warren to release her tax returns from before 2008 . Before Buttigieg’s shot at Warren, though, he had been facing harsh criticism for transparency issues in his campaign. He has had to defend not
rachsandl Yes, about $70,000 per year in her 30 years as an attorney.
rachsandl Wow. You're so right. This IS a newsworthy scandal. Imagine, a lawyer at the top of her field, making $1.9 Million over nearly three decades. She should have made 10 times that amount.
rachsandl How much did she make teaching 1 class at Harvard? 300k per year.
rachsandl She is damn good at this capitalist stuff.
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rachsandl So what rachsandl? What are you asserting here? That a lawyer SHOULD NOT take cases that defend the Constitutional rights of her clients? That she shouldn't be paid for her work? Exactly which anti-American, anti-feminist position are you trying to assert?
rachsandl We need to see the 8 cases (amicus curiae briefs) that she submitted to the Supreme Court on her own behalf. I do not trust Pocahontas buying access to my time as a “voter”.
rachsandl So. What the point of even stating this? Is she supposed to not make any money for being a lawyer? What is your fucking issue with this? Why is this even news?
rachsandl Also known as 65k per year
rachsandl we love a misleading headline that purposely leaves out the fact that it was 1.9 million dollars ~over 30 years~ which is like $60k/year
rachsandl Oh... The horror
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