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But Chatterbox is at a loss to explain how anyone but a pair of formerly high-ranking newspaper executives could conceive of interviewing McPherson without grilling him about his representation of the tobacco industry, which in 1997 transformed McPherson's law firm, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, into a gaudy lobbying powerhouse (at least in terms of billable hours).
And in any event, there's no reason to think Verner, Liipfert's work will be confined to the settlement.
He says that Verner, Liipfert agreed to take on tobacco clients only after being persuaded that they were ready to mend their ways, and that a global settlement would serve the common good.
In the words of one former Verner, Liipfert partner quoted in the Monthly story: "They were getting paid more for who they were than what they did."
According to the Monthly piece, Verner, Liipfert, though hired to help sell to Congress the settlement reached between state attorneys general and the tobacco industry (without, of course, letting Congress make the minimal improvements required to make it even a marginally acceptable deal), was in fact mostly selling its reputation.
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