OPINION: AG Outsourcing Is A Threat To Public Interest

Law360, New York (August 3, 2016, 3:40 PM EDT) -- Objectivity in government enforcement is critical to a lawful society. For that basic reason, it is against public interest for attorneys general to outsource their legal authority to private law firms. Nevertheless, this is precisely what occurred when Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude E. Walker hired an aggressive class action law firm to go fishing in the Caribbean and pursue a highly controversial lawsuit against Exxon....

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