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About The Author
PAUL L NEVINS
Paul L. Nevins has been a trial attorney in private practice since 1982. He is admitted to the Massachusetts Bar, Federal District Court for Massachusetts and First Circuit Court of Appeals Mr. Nevins is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, and the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA). He is also a member of the American Bar Association and served on its national advisory committee.
Although a sole practitioner, Attorney Nevins has been involved in extensive, complex civil cases throughout his legal career. In most cases, he has prosecuted claims as a plaintiff’s attorney on behalf of employees who have been victims of age, sex, race or disability discrimination. Early in his career, he represented the prevailing plaintiff in Denton v. Boilermakers Union, Local 29, 650 F. Supp. 1151 (D. Mass., 1986), a race discrimination case in which Judge Wolf found a continuing civil rights violation that permitted the plaintiff to roll back his statute of limitations with respect to damages.
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SOCIAL INJUSTICE AND ECONOMIC MISERY IN AMERICA
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"My hope is that, as ordinary Americans begin to understand that the current economic system, aided and abetted by our political and legal institutions as well as the popular media, does not serve their best interests, they will also begin to realize that real change can occur in a democracy when citizens mobilize, grasp their power, and become politically engaged," says Nevins.
“Nobody has a sense of the whole,” he continues. "Basically, it means that people who control the system game it and gain advantages they perpetuate generation after generation, and the result is astonishing inequality in our culture. If it’s not corrected... we’re not in good shape for the future."
Nevins identifies an extreme strain of anti-social individualism propagated by influential billionaires, including the Kochs, DeVos, Olins, and Mercers, among others. This ideology, distilled to its core, has been employed as a litmus test to define the limits of acceptable policies in American politics, economics, and jurisprudence.