The ''West Virginia Record,'' founded in 2005, is a weekly
legal publication
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funded by the
United States Chamber of Commerce
The United States Chamber of Commerce (USCC) is the largest lobbying group in the United States, representing over three million businesses and organizations. The group was founded in April 1912 out of local chambers of commerce at the urging ...
, the largest lobbyist group in the United States, and distributed in the state of
West Virginia
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.
The Record is a product of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's
Institute for Legal Reform
The US Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR), founded in 1998, is a separately incorporated affiliate of the United States Chamber of Commerce. The organization advocates for civil justice reform, commonly referred to as tort reform.
The pres ...
. It is distributed statewide and covers subjects of interest to the legal community. The Record, along with other publications by the Chamber of Commerce including the ''
Southeast Texas Record
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'', the ''
Louisiana Record
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'', among others, takes an editorial viewpoint that is conservative and strongly favors
tort reform
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in order to reduce the ability of plaintiffs to bring litigation, particularly for negligence, and to reduce damages that can be received.
According to a lawsuit filed against the Record in August 2006, the Record is published by an Illinois company, the Madison County Record Inc. The president of that company is Stanton D. Anderson, who is also senior counsel to the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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West Virginia Record
Newspapers published in West Virginia
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