We've all heard the worn-out jokes about lawyers coming from comedians and politicians,
and even our friends.
They refer to lawyers as opportunistic ambulance chasers who are only out to make a quick buck
off of someone else's suffering.
These comments aren't as innocuous as you might think.
In fact, they're focused and developed as a highly financed, well-coordinated, decades-long
smear campaign carried out by business interest groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and
the world's biggest insurance corporations.
In 1971, Lewis Powell, before he became a justice on the United States Supreme Court,
sent a memo to business and political leaders, where he outlined what he believed were the
challenges facing the business community, coming from a group that he referred to as
the New Leftists.
During Powell's entire career, as a matter of fact, as a lawyer and as a judge, he was
a loyal, loyal servant to a system where the interest of corporations was always superior
to the interest of consumers who were victimized by those corporations.
In this memo, Powell suggested that business groups, specifically the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
needed to come forward with direct campaigns in the media and by lobbying politicians to
paint anti-corporatist groups like trial lawyers and consumer groups as enemies of democracy
who are only out to serve themselves.
By the 1980s, the campaign was well underway, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the insurance
industry was leading the charge to discredit and dehumanize and vilify trial lawyers
because they were the only ones holding corporations accountable when they killed or crippled American
consumers with defective products.
Sadly, the public was willing to buy into those lies.
The Chamber of Commerce created a new department that they called the Institute for Legal Reform.
This group was created to be the attack dog of big business and Republicans.
Their only job was to go after trial lawyers for two reasons.
The first reason was because businesses didn't want to pay for their crimes.
The second is because, at the time, trial lawyers were the largest donor group for the
Democratic Party, a trend that's only ended once Citizens United allowed Wall Street bankers
to buy the loyalty of the Democrats.
Once the Chamber and their allies in the political world smeared the image of trial lawyers as
a whole, they began to target specific attorneys and law firms.
In a report issued by the Institute for Legal Reform in October of 2013, the group specifically
listed law firms and individual lawyers who they believed posed the biggest threats to
the profits, the profits of big business.
The attacks from corporate interest groups and politicians took a sinister turn.
In the last few years, they've provided just a small glimpse of what corporations
really want to accomplish, and that is putting consumer trial lawyers behind bars.
That leaves government regulatory agencies as dysfunctional
as the FDA, as dysfunctional as the SEC and the EPA, to keep their eye on corporations
and try to keep corporations honest.
Then, of course, there's America's corporate media that today is fully owned and operated
by huge corporate advertisers who threaten to pull billions of dollars in advertising
from ABC and CBS and NBC if those corporate media types go too far in protecting consumers
against corrupt corporations.

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