[Computerbank] Clayton Utz - do we have issues?

[Romana Challans <romana@timelady.com>]

Dear all,

This email, I must stress, is being written by me as a member of Computerbank 
Australia, not as SA Branch Cooordinator, and reflects noone's views but my 
own.

I dont know how aware of recent news events everyone is, but I am disturbed 
by the revelation that Clayton Utz, the legal firm, is a seemingly rabid 
supporter of tobacco companies, with apparently no conscience.

Now, I am unsure if the Clayton Utz legal company in this case is the same 
Clayton Utz we have doing legal advice for Computerbank - it seems likely, 
given the name, but I am open to correction:) If it isnt, please ignore the 
rest of my email, and apologies for wasting electrons - please recycle them 
instantly!
However, if it is so:

Regardless of whether they connived in the destruction of documents to 
prevent a woman with lung cancer winning her lawsuit against a majot tobacco 
company, even regardless of whether they investigated her personal life in an 
effort to discredit her personally, they represent tobacco companies - not 
exactly what anyone, in even the most charitable frame of mind, could call 
ethical or moral companies.

I have real issues with being associated in anyway with such a company. 
Expedience of their legal advice being provided for free or reduced rates 
does not make it acceptable to me. Surely there are other, more ethical legal 
firms we could be associating ourselves with! We should not be one of their 
small concessions to conscience, so we can be held up as an example of just 
how 'community minded' they are:)

Romana:)
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Romana Challans
Computerbank Australia  Incorporated -  SA branch coordinator
http://www.linunix.com/cbsa/

"Between the idea and the reality,
Between the motion and the act,
Falls the Shadow..."
(TS Eliot)
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