{"id":2548,"date":"2012-12-27T05:20:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T05:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/remembering_joan_mulhern\/"},"modified":"2020-07-07T10:58:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T10:58:34","slug":"remembering_joan_mulhern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/remembering_joan_mulhern\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Joan Mulhern – National Consumers League"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>By Sally Greenberg, NCL Executive Director<\/strong><\/div>\n

The public interest movement has lost a great champion. Joan\u00a0Mulhern, consumer and environmental advocate, succumbed to\u00a0liver disease at the age of 51\u00a0this past week. Joan worked for Earth Justice as Senior Counsel for the past decade,\u00a0but I first met her\u00a0when she worked\u00a0as counsel for Public Citizen and\u00a0while\u00a0I\u00a0was at\u00a0Consumers Union. These were the\u00a0days\u00a0when\u00a0there were a plethora of\u00a0bills introduced\u00a0to \u201creform\u201d the medical malpractice system. It was almost a full-time job to track them. Reform, unfortunately,\u00a0meant putting caps on damages, limiting attorneys\u00a0fees and placing statute of limitations on claims, no matter how serious the injury. All of these\u00a0tactics were intended to limit\u00a0access to justice for injured patients. \u00a0We were visiting a Senator\u2019s office and Joan\u00a0had a bill in front of her for the\u00a0first time. In no time flat, \u00a0she\u00a0had analyzed the proposal and found its flaws. Joan was whip smart and indefatigable.<\/p>\n

Last February, Joan reached out to me to ask whether the National Consumers League would join in lobbying for full access to the civil justice system. Several odious bills had made their way through\u00a0the House Judiciary Committee. I said yes,\u00a0of course, because it was very hard to say no to Joan, and we visited\u00a0members together to\u00a0explain our concerns.\u00a0After a series of visits arranged by\u00a0Joan and her colleagues, the bills died.<\/p>\n

I will miss Joan\u2019s warm smile and\u00a0friendship .\u00a0More importantly, the environmental\u00a0movement will\u00a0surely miss Joan\u00a0Mulhern\u2019s\u00a0fine legal mind and passion for her work. We all owe Joan a debt of gratitude for devoting her legal career to the cause of public justice. May she rest in\u00a0peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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