Swankin-Turner - Principals

Betsy E. Lehrfeld

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Betsy E. Lehrfeld, a principal in the firm, focuses on insurance investment and regulatory issues, health care, health-specialty certification, and commercial, contract, corporate and tax matters for businesses and nonprofit organizations. She has appeared before the Food and Drug Administration and has served as general counsel to Consumers United Insurance Company, the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and the Consumer Health Foundation (formerly Group Health Association, Inc.). A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), she currently serves as Executive Director of the National Institute for Science, Law, and Public Policy (NISLAPP).

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James S. Turner

administrator — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 01:42:31 -0500

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James S. Turner, a principal in the firm, represents businesses as well as individuals and consumer groups in a wide variety of regulatory matters concerning food, drug, health, environmental and product-safety matters. He has appeared before every major consumer regulatory agency, including the Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Consumer Product Safety Commission and Federal Trade Commission, as well as the Department of Agriculture and the National Institutes of Health. He has served as Special Counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Food, Nutrition, and Health, and to the Senate Government Operations Subcommittee on Government Research. He has also been a policy consultant to major corporations in the food, pharmaceutical and telecommunications industries, including such companies as Kraft Foods, The Quaker Oats Company, Hoffmann-LaRoche, and AT&T. He was the lead attorney on a successful petition to the FDA to reclassify acupuncture needles from Class III to Class II medical devices, thereby permitting their legal importation and distribution. He is a graduate of The Ohio State University School of Law.

Articles by James S. Turner

David A. Swankin

administrator — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 01:39:41 -0500

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David A. Swankin , a principal in the firm, is President and CEO of the Citizen Advocacy Center (CAC), a training, research and support network for public members of health care regulatory and governing boards. CAC was created to equip public members to lead their boards toward serving public policy goals more effectively and efficiently. In addition to overall administration, Mr. Swankin is responsible for CAC's training component.

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Mr. Swankin is an attorney specializing in regulatory and administrative law. He has a broad background in both government and public interest advocacy. His government career included assignments in the White House and the U.S. Department of Labor.

He has provided legal services to numerous public interest and professional organizations, including serving as Special Counsel to the National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators, a General Counsel to the National Consumers League, and Special Counsel to the Consumer Federation of America. He served as a Commissioner on the Pew Health Professions Commission during 1997 and 1998.

Previously Mr. Swankin served as Director of the Bureau of Labor Standards and Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor. He served as the first Executive Director of the White House Office of Consumer Affairs in the mid-1960s.

Mr. Swankin was a member of the original National Advisory Council to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, has served on the faculty of the University of Southern California (Washington, D.C. campus), and is a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Society for Testing and Materials. He is listed in Who's Who in America, and has received numerous public service awards.