Article snippet: WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday night released a list of dozens of corporations she assisted during her time as a bankruptcy advocate, a move that attempts to address head-on one of the trickier chapters of her past as she seeks the presidency. Warren, who rails against big banks and tech companies as a populist candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination, also spent 20 years occasionally advising, representing, and serving as an expert witness for corporations when she was a professor specializing in bankruptcy law. Those cases, many of which came up during Warren’s 2012 Massachusetts Senate race, include advising Dow Chemical on the bankruptcy of its subsidiary as it was battling lawsuits from women who received faulty breast implants and representing an aircraft manufacturer that was trying to stay in business after one of its planes crashed. On the campaign trail, Warren describes herself as a teacher and a law professor, and she jokes that she practiced law for “about 45 minutes” between graduating law school and pursuing a career as a professor. The disclosures could draw new attention to other aspects of her career. Along with the lengthy disclosure, the campaign argued on Warren’s website that bankruptcy cases are inherently tough and involve competing interests. “Ultimately, the core challenge of bankruptcy is that it attempts to resolve a situation that involves suffering for everyone involved,” the campaign said in a statement acco... Link to the full article to read more