Kentucky

Here's a Courier Journal story by Andrew Wolfson featuring Angela Ford and her efforts at protecting her clients who were victimized by the Diet Drug Lawyers case:

Attorney toppled diet-drug case Goliaths Monday Sep 7, 2009

She stands only 5-foot-3 and says she weighs ?just north of 100 pounds."

She has said she once was so painfully shy that the thought of speaking before a group would cause her stomach to knot and her hands to perspire. She disliked school, earning mostly Bs and Cs at Louisville's Mercy Academy, and in her first year after high school she worked as a dental hygienist.

But Angela Ford grew increasingly confident as she grew older, and went on to become the first female student government president at the University of Louisville.

And now the 51-year-old lawyer has proven herself on a much larger stage.

Taking on powerful interests, virtually by herself, the Lexington practitioner helped expose one of the biggest legal scandals in U.S. history ? the theft of tens of millions of dollars from Kentuckians injured by the diet drug fen-phen.

Her five-year fight culminated last month in the sentencing of disbarred lawyers William Gallion and Shirley Cunningham Jr. to long prison terms and a court order of $127million in restitution to her 423 clients, who previously were represented by those same lawyers.

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See the following story for a take on this story from another perspective:

Small Town Players Can Make a Big Difference