Tobacco lawyers shame the entire profession

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Lawyers for the tobacco industry betrayed their role in counseling business clients and exploited the attorney-client privilege to conceal deception. The disclosure of confidential tobacco industry files in the Minnesota trials made this conduct apparent. The conduct was systematic and continued for decades. The confidential papers show that the industry knew of nicotine's addictive effect for 30 years but concealed this fact, holding back the bad facts as lawyer-client confidences while releasing the good ones as the product of scientific research.

Cigarettes, Cigarette Manufacturing, Product liability, Products liability, Tobacco

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Starr flap shows need for reform

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Widespread concern that Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth W Starr has conflicts of interest reflect the increasingly apparent need to change how these investigations are conducted. Cases involving former US Rep Dan Rostenkowski and Ronald H Brown show most investigations need no special counsel, and can be entrusted to the Justice Department. For special cases, an investigator with special protections could work from the Justice Dept, which already supplies most of the work force in such investigations.

Analysis, Ethical aspects, Conflict of interests (Attorneys), Conflicts of interest (Lawyers), Starr, Kenneth W.

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