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CHARLOTTE KOSKOFF (D) District...
Losing to Republican incumbent Nancy Johnson in 1994 didn't discourage Koskoff; in fact, she says the defeat taught her what she needs to know to win this time. But that strategy seems to have centered on scrutinizing Johnson's role in the Ethics Committee's investigation of Newt Gingrich. In response to accusations that she's waging a single-issue campaign, Koskoff says she supports increased funding for Head Start and ensuring a community-college education for everyone...
...fear of lawsuits also forces drug companies to be honest. "I will sue people so that I can protect women," says Connecticut attorney Karen Koskoff. An implant recipient herself, Koskoff co-chairs the implant litigation group at the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA...
...reformers. Boston Attorney Robert Meserve, who became chairman of the ethics commission after the death last month of Omaha's Robert Kutak, noted that lawyers have been able to (and still can) disclose confidential information from a client in order to recover a fee. But to Theodore Koskoff, past president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, "The philosophy of the proposed code was wrong. The thread that ran through it was of looking at a lawyer not as a champion but as an ombudsman." The adversary system would be undermined if a client hesitates to tell...
...books recount the family history: The Mellon Family by Burton Hersh (Morrow) and The Mellons by David E. Koskoff (Crowell...