AG challenger on board with ATRA code
West Virginia Record
July 15, 2008
Dan Greear, a Republican candidate for state Attorney General, agreed Tuesday to abide by a transparency code crafted by the American Tort Reform Association if he is elected. ATRA's code of conduct values disclosure, oversight and accountability in the process of state attorneys general hiring private practice firms to represent their states.
"The mission of the code is to set a platform state attorneys general to enforce laws free from influence of parties that may have an interest on the outcome of litigation, providing maximum transparency in the process to the taxpayers and the public," said Greear, a Charleston attorney who is challenging incumbent Democrat Darrell McGraw.
