Government
Jul. 10, 2009
Crash Course
Christine D. Spagnoli built a career suing automakers over deadly defects. Now, as president of the Consumer Attorneys of California, she is leading the charge to keep Detroit from escaping liability for its products as it goes through bankruptcy.
By Evan George
Daily Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - Christine Spagnoli may have kicked politics for law school 26 years ago, but you wouldn't know it from her recent flurry of weekly red-eye flights to Washington, D.C. There was one difference this time around for the former Capitol Hill intern: Spagnoli was there on her own agenda. The 52-year-old personal injury lawyer led a frenzied charge to kill lawmakers' plans that would have gr...
Daily Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - Christine Spagnoli may have kicked politics for law school 26 years ago, but you wouldn't know it from her recent flurry of weekly red-eye flights to Washington, D.C. There was one difference this time around for the former Capitol Hill intern: Spagnoli was there on her own agenda. The 52-year-old personal injury lawyer led a frenzied charge to kill lawmakers' plans that would have gr...
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