Oops - a little matter of legal jurisdiction
Elizabeth Warren claimed to be part Indian despite not being registered with any tribe. She did this to get minority status when she applied to teach Law at Harvard University.
It seems she has run afoul of the law. From
Legal Insurrection:
Elizabeth Warren�s law license problem
The debate last Thursday night between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren covered ground mostly known to voters.
But there was one subject most people watching probably did not know about, Elizabeth Warren�s private legal representation of The Travelers Insurance Company in an asbestos-related case.
Warren attempted to deny her role, and referred to a Boston Globe article, but the Globe article supports Brown�s account. The Globe article indicated the representation was for a period of three years and Warren was paid $212,000. The case resulted in a Supreme Court victory for Travelers arising out of a bankruptcy case in New York.
Whatever the political implications of the exchange, Warren�s representation of Travelers raises another big potential problem for Warren.
Warren represented not just Travelers, but numerous other companies starting in the late 1990s working out of and using her Harvard Law School office in Cambridge, which she listed as her office of record on briefs filed with various courts. Warren, however, never has been licensed to practice law in Massachusetts.
As detailed below, there are at least two provisions of Massachusetts law Warren may have violated. First, on a regular and continuing basis she used her Cambridge office for the practice of law without being licensed in Massachusetts. Second, in addition to operating an office for the practice of law without being licensed in Massachusetts, Warren actually practiced law in Massachusetts without being licensed.
There is a lot more at the post -- she is running for the Senate, trying to upset Republican Scott Brown who won Ted Kennedy's old seat in a surprise election.
Posted by DaveH at September 25, 2012 2:25 PM