Ex-Pa. Justice Exits Cozen O’Connor, Denies Holocaust E-Mail is Reason
A former Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice says an inflammatory e-mail bearing her name was not the reason for her departure from Cozen O’Connor.
Former justice Sandra Schultz Newman told the Legal Intelligencer that she decided to leave the law firm, where she led a national appellate practice, because conflicts made it difficult to grow her book of business.
Newman told the publication that conflicts forced her to turn down an amicus brief for a trial lawyers association, a multimillion-dollar case against a pharmaceutical company and several other cases against insurers.
Newman said she was not leaving because of an e-mail with her signature that warned Jewish voters a Barack Obama win could lead to a “second Holocaust,” the story says. She later apologized for the e-mail, saying she did not carefully review the final draft before it was released.
