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...doubtful Denholtz will do for dental consumers what Ralph Nader did for auto buyers a decade ago. But he appears to have brought consumerism to a profession in great need of a checkup...
...Illinois Law Professor Thomas D. Morgan, writing in the Harvard Law Review, found that virtually every section of the code serves lawyers first, protecting them from public criticism and increasing their fees. An even harsher verdict was reached by Mark Green, a Washington attorney and associate of Consumerist Ralph Nader: "While piously proclaiming an interest in the public good, the bar's Canons of Ethics have operated as Canons of Profits...
That record does not satisfy many critics. "Lawyers still hold themselves out as above the public fray and capable of self-regulation," says Green. "It's the same argument put out by meat manufacturers in 1906 and auto manufacturers in 1965." To increase the pressure, a Nader group, Public Citizen Inc., last week shipped copies of a pamphlet entitled 10 Ways to Take On Your Local Bar Association to 50 consumer groups across the nation. The broadside urges formation of local watchdog units to monitor bar regulations, publication of legal directories with fee information, pressure on law firms...
...decision went well beyond one by his predecessor, William Coleman, who in January got a commitment from General Motors and Ford that they would make 440,000 air-bag-equipped cars starting in fall 1979. But it did not end the nine-year debate over the bags. Ralph Nader, who together with other consumerists and the Allstate Insurance Co. had lobbied hard for the bags, was disappointed by the four-to six-year lead time granted automakers to install the devices. Sniffed Nader: "If the industry can build a Mustang in 30 months, it could be speeded up to install...
...Ralph Nader and other consumer advocates have fought since the late 1960s for an agency that would operate autonomously within the Government, representing the public interest by monitoring other departments, testifying at their hearings, petitioning them to change injurious regulations and challenging their adverse decisions in the courts (TIME, April 18). Says Presidential Special Assistant for Consumer Affairs Esther Peterson: "We have got to have somebody that speaks for the consumer, as we have people who speak for business." Only Gerald Ford's threatened veto kept the agency from being established...