Bracewell & Giuliani’s Shocking Client

Bracewell & Giuliani, an international law firm that bears the name of former New York Mayor and Republican presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani, lobbied last year on behalf of a special needs school to kill a bill that would have prevented the school from using electric shocks to discipline students, according to this story from the Boston Globe.

The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center reportedly paid $100,000 to the law firm to lobby the Senate on its behalf in opposition to a bill that would have banned the use of restraints and certain other devices on students.  The bill passed the House, but was killed in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.  According to the firm, Giuliani was not involved in the decision to accept the school as a client and played no role in lobbying on the school’s behalf.