11.21.2003
Washingtonian: Lawyer Gets Big College $$$
From the Power Players column in The Washingtonian, by Kim Eisler. There's a lot of items to scroll through, so I don't think they'll mind if I just quote the whole thing:
Lawyer Gets Big College $$$[by way of romenesko]
Washington superlawyer Robert Barnett already is the attorney of choice for the politicians and media heavyweights seeking to write books.
In his stable are reporters like Bob Woodward and Sam Donaldson and politician authors like Nancy Reagan, Hillary Clinton, and Tom Daschle.
But if you want to ascribe “master of the universe” status to Barnett, look no farther than his role in placing clients into the top positions of the nation’s leading universities.
Barnett found former Health and Human Services secretary Donna Shalala her job as head of the University of Miami. He played a key role in negotiating the returnof former Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers to Harvard as president.
And it was Barnett who engineered the deal that was intended to put former NASA administrator Dan Goldin into the cockpit of Boston University.
When that deal fell apart at the last minute, Barnett negotiated a $1.8-million severance package for a job Goldin had never occupied for a day.
Boston University officials were anguished and embarrassed over the Goldin fiasco. Barnett? He pledged to have the newly rich Goldin relocated in no time.
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