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The late Clark Clifford, advisor to US Presidents and legendaryWashington attorney, was famed for warning new clients interested in legal representation before the executive branch and its agencies that he had no “influence.”1 Clifford claimed only to possess the expertise of someone intimately familiar with the workings of the US government, which allowed him to instruct clients on how best to place their views and needs before administrative agencies and executive branch departments. Clifford’s caveat has struck many as implausible, even ridiculous, because he clearly offered more than sound legal argumentation: a wealth of “insider” contacts with government officials at all levels, and a reputation that preceded him | Lawyers and Regulation The Politics of the Administrative Process PATRICK SCHMIDT CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LAW AND SOCIETY Cambridge more information - 9780521844659 This page intentionally left blank LAWYERS AND REGULATION The Politics of the Administrative Process This book is a close study of lawyers who practice occupational safety and health law in the United States using detailed interview and survey data to explore the roles that lawyers have as representatives of companies unions and OSHA the Occupational Safety and Health Administration . Placed in the context of evolving understandings of regulatory politics as a problem of public-private interaction and negotiation the book argues that lawyers adapt to multiple roles in what prove to be highly complex settings. The core chapters examine stages of the administrative process where various groups attempt to shape the immediate outcomes and the development of OSHA law. These stages include administrative rulemaking post-rulemaking litigation of government standards regulatory enforcement and compliance counseling by lawyers. PATRICK SCHMIDT received his . from the University of Minnesota 1993 and a . from Johns Hopkins University 1999 . Prior to taking up his current post as Assistant Professor of Political Science at Southern Methodist University he was the John Adams Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and a research fellow of Nuffield College Oxford. He has published widely and is co-editor with Simon Halliday of Human Rights Brought Home Socio-Legal Studies of Human Rights in the National Context 2004