There’s a diary on the Rec list entitled All the problems with Bernie's campaign in one article. A must read for undecided voters. It links to another article, “On Becoming Anti-Bernie,” by someone named Robin Alperstein. A quick interweb search reveals that Ms. Alperstein is a Partner at the NY law firm Becker, Glynn. Here is the blurb that accompanies her profile:
Robin Alperstein concentrates her practice in complex commercial litigation, with a particular focus on disputes involving hedge funds and structured products, and on class action and derivative litigation in federal and state courts. She represents domestic and international clients on a range of issues, including corporate governance matters and shareholder disputes, securities fraud, insider trading, short selling, market manipulation, fraudulent conveyance, employment, and unfair completion matters, including antitrust, theft of trade secrets and non-competition agreements. Ms. Alperstein also regularly counsels clients on complex business disputes involving contract claims, RICO violations, fraud and other business torts. She handles civil cases as well as domestic and international arbitrations, represents clients before the Securities and Exchange Commission, conducts internal investigations, and advises boards of directors, majority shareholders, management and individual directors on corporate governance issues.
In case there is any question about whose interests she represents, she also touts the following experience:
- Defending several hedge funds and a health care company in the Tribune fraudulent conveyance actions.
- Defending several hedge funds in the Lyondell fraudulent conveyance actions.
- Defending publicly traded domestic company against wage and hour class action in New York state court.
- Defeated securities fraud class action brought against foreign holding company and individual in District of Massachusetts.
- Defeated market manipulation class action brought against foreign holding company and individual directors in Southern District of New York.
- Defeated antitrust and RICO class actions claims brought against large domestic insurance company.
I generally like to read a variety of viewpoints. But given who she spends her days defending, I have no interest in what she has to say about Bernie.