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| Moreover, with the lawyers fees in the tobacco settlement running into the
hundreds of millions, even billions, many of those trial lawyers have had a lot
more to donate this election cycle. More than a half-dozen law firms involved
in the tobacco settlement have each given the Democratic Party more than
$100,000 in the unlimited, unregulated donations known as soft money, some
writing checks as large as $400,000. |
| Still, while trial lawyers have been focused mainly on one issue, defeating
tort reform and Mr. Bush, corporate America has been donating to Republicans to
advance any number of business issues. Big business donors like the Chamber of
Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and many large corporations
gave to Republicans for many reasons, tort reform being only one. |
| Over all, trial lawyers raised $2.7 million in soft money donations for
Democrats in 1999, of a total of $49.4 million in soft dollars raised so far by
the party, according to a recent report from Common Cause, a Washington
nonprofit group. (By contrast, the Republicans got $2,800 in soft money from
trial lawyers, Common Cause reported, of $57.8 million in soft dollars over
all.) |
| Nonetheless, the American Tort Reform Foundation, a branch of the lobbying
group, has set up a Web site, www.triallawyermoney.org, to follow trial lawyer
donations called Tracking Trial Lawyers. The group has listed the biggest
trial lawyer donors as well as the biggest recipients of their largess --
basically a list of Democratic Party committees and candidates. |
| To that end, while trial lawyers have long been heavy Democratic Party donors,
the prospect of a Bush candidacy, along with the possibility that like-minded
Republicans would retain control of Congress, has ratcheted up the stakes, and
the donations. |
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