<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2015%2F04%2F28%2Fbusiness%2Ftrans-pacific-partnership-puts-harvard-law-school-rivals-on-opposite-sides-again.html%3F_r%3D0" class="">http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2015%2F04%2F28%2Fbusiness%2Ftrans-pacific-partnership-puts-harvard-law-school-rivals-on-opposite-sides-again.html%3F_r%3D0</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h1 itemprop="headline" id="story-heading" class="story-heading" style="font-size: 2.125rem; line-height: 2.375rem; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-style: italic;">Trans-Pacific Partnership Puts Harvard Law School Rivals on Opposite Sides, Again</h1><div id="story-meta-footer" class="story-meta-footer" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-top: 2px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px;"></div></div><div id="story-meta-footer" class="story-meta-footer" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-top: 2px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span class="byline" itemprop="author creator" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemid="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/jonathan_weisman/index.html" style="font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 0.75rem; font-weight: 700; font-family: nyt-cheltenham-sh, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;">By <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/jonathan_weisman/index.html" rel="author" title="More Articles by JONATHAN WEISMAN" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span class="byline-author" data-byline-name="JONATHAN WEISMAN" itemprop="name">JONATHAN WEISMAN</span></a></span><time class="dateline" datetime="2015-04-27" style="font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 0.75rem; font-family: nyt-cheltenham-sh, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-left: 12px;">APRIL 27, 2015</time></div><div id="story-meta-footer" class="story-meta-footer" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-top: 2px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><header id="story-header" class="story-header" style="position: relative;"><div id="story-meta" class=" story-meta" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"><div id="story-meta-footer" class="story-meta-footer" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-top: 2px;"><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="234" data-total-count="234" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">WASHINGTON — In the early 2000s, after Michael Froman decamped from the Clinton Treasury Department for Wall Street, he called his old law school colleague Lori Wallach, now an anti-globalization activist, with an unusual proposal.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="275" data-total-count="509" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">Would she fly to Citigroup’s training center in Westchester County, N.Y., to explain to company executives from around the world that liberal activists who had derailed a World Trade Organization expansion were not all fuzzy-headed anarchists and should be taken seriously?</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="238" data-total-count="747" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">“Really?” she recalled shouting incredulously to the assistant who took the call, before making an offer she figured he would have to refuse. “Tell them my speaking fee is $20,000, and I need a private plane right to Westchester.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="80" data-total-count="827" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">Demands met, her assistant shouted back, “We should’ve asked for $50,000.”</p><aside class="nocontent marginalia related-coverage-marginalia robots-nocontent related-coverage-marginalia-small-format" data-marginalia-type="sprinkled" role="complementary" module="RelatedCoverage-Marginalia" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); width: 300px; float: right; clear: right; margin: 0px 0px 45px 7px; padding-top: 10px;"><div class="nocontent robots-nocontent"><a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/business/trans-pacific-partnership-puts-harvard-law-school-rivals-on-opposite-sides-again.html?_r=0#story-continues-2" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">Continue reading the main story</a><header class=""><h2 class="module-heading" style="font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 0.6875rem; font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: uppercase;"><br class=""></h2></header><ul style="margin: 0px; list-style: none; padding-left: 0px;" class=""><li style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; margin-bottom: 0.75em;" class=""><article class="story theme-summary"><a class="story-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/business/obama-trade-legislation-fast-track-authority-trans-pacific-partnership.html" in_tag="ul" kaspersky_status="skipped" style="display: block; color: rgb(50, 104, 145); text-decoration: none;"><div class="thumb" style="float: left; clear: none; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 65px; height: auto; position: relative; max-width: 65px; cursor: pointer;"><br class=""></div></a></article></li><li style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><article class="story theme-summary"></article></li></ul></div></aside><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="351" data-total-count="1178" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-2" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">Ms. Wallach, the longtime leader of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch and a skeptic on what she calls “job killing” trade agreements, and Mr. Froman, the United States trade representative trying to land the largest trade accord in a generation, have occupied different worlds and economic stratospheres since their days at Harvard Law School.</p><figure id="media-100000003651329" class="media has-lede-adjacency embedded layout-small-vertical photo media-100000003651329 has-adjacency" data-media-action="modal" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemid="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/04/28/business/28froman-web2/28froman-web2-master180-v2.jpg" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" aria-label="media" role="group" style="margin: 6px 30px 45px 135px; position: relative; float: left; clear: left; width: 180px;"><span class="visually-hidden" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); overflow: hidden;">Photo</span><div class="image" style="position: relative; margin-bottom: 7px; cursor: pointer;"><img alt="" class="media-viewer-candidate" data-mediaviewer-src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/04/28/business/28froman-web2/28froman-web2-superJumbo-v2.jpg" data-mediaviewer-caption="Lori Wallach, the leader of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, is a skeptic on what she calls “job-killing” trade agreements." data-mediaviewer-credit="" itemprop="url" itemid="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/04/28/business/28froman-web2/28froman-web2-master180-v2.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; display: block;" apple-inline="yes" id="94D7FC43-D98E-46DD-8342-39EE64283D1A" height="226" width="180" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:CDD2AF99-FB08-4AD2-8119-A680030575F0@hsd1.pa.comcast.net."><div class="media-action-overlay" style="transition: opacity 0.2s ease-in; 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line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">But their lives keep intersecting in policy imbroglios. Officials in Mr. Froman’s office — who dispute Ms. Wallach’s version of the Citigroup episode — denounce her as an alarmist demagogue whose organization has used distortion and scare tactics to discredit free trade. Ms. Wallach and her liberal allies call Mr. Froman a toady to corporate America — and arrogant to boot.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="394" data-total-count="1957" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">As Congress considers giving another Harvard Law colleague from that era, <a title="More articles about Barack Obama" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per" style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);" class="">President Obama</a>, special “fast track” authority to negotiate a 12-nation Pacific trade accord, the two lawyers find themselves on opposing armies in one of the biggest legislative fights of the Obama presidency. Among those nations are Japan, Australia and Chile, and smaller economies like Brunei, Peru and Vietnam.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="47" data-total-count="2004" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">Loyalties to the two opposing forces are stark.</p><div class="accessibility-ad-header visually-hidden" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); overflow: hidden;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;" class="">Advertisement</p></div><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="425" data-total-count="2429" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-3" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">“I’ve questioned Froman on Brunei. I’ve questioned him on <a title="More articles about food safety." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/f/food_safety/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);" class="">food safety</a>. I’ve questioned him on not doing anything when Peru walked back from environmental regulations. Nothing,” fumed Representative Rosa DeLauro, Democrat of Connecticut, a fierce foe of the trade promotion authority legislation nearing House consideration and of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership that such authority would ease to completion.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="133" data-total-count="2562" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">By contrast, “Lori Wallach? She’s got such granular knowledge,” she said. “She’s my source of information and knowledge.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="285" data-total-count="2847" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">Republicans have lauded Mr. Froman for his full-throttle effort to secure the trade accord and his constant availability to them. Likewise, Representative Charles B. Rangel of New York, a Democrat more open to the trade bills, shrugged off the hostility expressed by many in his party.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="185" data-total-count="3032" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">“When I’m asking burning questions about human rights and labor rights and the environment and communist Vietnam, I know I’m dealing with a professional,” he said of Mr. Froman.</p><div class="nocontent ad ad-placeholder robots-nocontent" style="float: right; clear: right; margin: 0px 0px 40px 7px;"><a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/business/trans-pacific-partnership-puts-harvard-law-school-rivals-on-opposite-sides-again.html?_r=0#story-continues-4" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">Continue reading the main story</a><iframe frameborder="0" class="frame-for-article ad-frame" style="border-style: none; width: 300px; height: 250px;"></iframe></div><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="251" data-total-count="3283" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-4" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">Clearly, though, many lawmakers have lost patience with Mr. Froman. As a result, a <a title="Times article." href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/business/international/congressional-panels-approve-fast-track-for-trade-deal-with-conditions.html" style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);" class="">hard-fought compromise</a> on the trade promotion bill approved by the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees last week practically legislates better relations.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="377" data-total-count="3660" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-5" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">One unusual provision says that if members of Congress request a meeting or ask the trade representative a question, his office has to respond. The bill would also allow congressional aides with the proper security clearance to go into rooms with the Trans-Pacific Partnership texts and read them without lawmakers or officials from the trade representative’s office present.</p><figure id="media-100000003652798" class="media media-100000003652798 embedded ratio-tall photo layout-large-horizontal has-adjacency" data-media-action="modal" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemid="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/04/28/business/28FROMAN/28FROMAN-articleLarge.jpg" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" aria-label="media" role="group" style="margin: 45px 0px 45px 135px; position: relative; width: 540px;"><span class="visually-hidden" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); overflow: hidden;">Photo</span><div class="image" style="position: relative; margin-bottom: 7px; cursor: pointer; width: 540px;"><img alt="" class="media-viewer-candidate" data-mediaviewer-src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/04/28/business/28FROMAN/28FROMAN-superJumbo.jpg" data-mediaviewer-caption="Michael Froman testifying before a Senate panel in January. The Trans-Pacific Partnership has drawn passion from both sides." data-mediaviewer-credit="Kevin Lamarque/Reuters" itemprop="url" itemid="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/04/28/business/28FROMAN/28FROMAN-articleLarge.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; display: block;" apple-inline="yes" id="F797A539-7881-4D42-AEB7-A8C3145A6668" height="400" width="600" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:D9F8D52C-BD43-46CB-A399-A81CE2480349@hsd1.pa.comcast.net."><div class="media-action-overlay" style="transition: opacity 0.2s ease-in; -webkit-transition: opacity 0.2s ease-in; border-top-left-radius: 6px; border-top-right-radius: 6px; border-bottom-right-radius: 6px; border-bottom-left-radius: 6px; opacity: 0; bottom: 15px; left: 15px; position: absolute; z-index: 5; border: 1px solid rgba(200, 200, 200, 0.8); cursor: pointer;"><span class="icon sprite-icon" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 0; vertical-align: middle; background-image: url(http://a1.nyt.com/assets/article/20150427-155801/images/sprite/sprite-no-repeat.svg); width: 38px; height: 38px; background-position: -346px -117px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"></span></div></div><figcaption class="caption" itemprop="caption description" style="font-size: 0.8125rem; line-height: 1.0625rem; font-family: nyt-cheltenham-sh, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); width: auto; right: 0px; bottom: 23px;"><span class="caption-text">Michael Froman testifying before a Senate panel in January. The Trans-Pacific Partnership has drawn passion from both sides.</span> <span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 1rem; display: inline-block; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="visually-hidden" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); overflow: hidden;">Credit</span>Kevin Lamarque/Reuters </span></figcaption></figure><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="239" data-total-count="3899" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">“This is not personal,” said Senator Bernard Sanders, independent of Vermont and another opponent of the trade effort. “It’s clearly the rules that have been established in terms of transparency. It’s been a disgrace, frankly.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="380" data-total-count="4279" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">Fomenting much of that umbrage is Ms. Wallach, whose tactics, detailed treatises and Capitol Hill briefings have torn apart the chapters of the Pacific accord that have leaked out. She has castigated Mr. Froman’s tight control over the contents of the agreement and dismissed efforts by Republicans and Democrats to find common ground as smoke screens for a big-business agenda.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="385" data-total-count="4664" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">In February, using the email address <a href="mailto:michaelfromanustr@gmail.com" style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);" class="">michaelfromanustr@gmail.com</a>, Public Citizen emailed a faux Valentine, ostensibly from Mr. Froman, saying: “If I have betrayed your trust, I am sorry that you feel that way. I’ve been so focused on convincing you to take the Fast Track trip with me and buy those trade deals I love, I’ve said some things that, in retrospect, were not true.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="97" data-total-count="4761" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">Specifically, Public Citizen accused him of misrepresenting the results of past trade agreements.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="355" data-total-count="5116" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">Ms. Wallach’s role as antagonist to Mr. Froman has been decades in the making. At Harvard, the two ran in very different circles. The closest they came was a small campus building that housed both The Harvard Law Review, where the future president and his future trade negotiator were editors, and the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, where she was an officer.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="331" data-total-count="5447" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">As for the future president, Ms. Wallach worked with him during a divisive campaign to bring more diversity to the Harvard Law faculty and again on an effort to save Harvard’s program advising law students on public interest careers, said John Bonifaz, a campaign finance reformer and Wallach ally who was at Harvard at the time.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="38" data-total-count="5485" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">Mr. Froman was part of neither effort.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="146" data-total-count="5631" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-6" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">“He was more a corporate law type,” Mr. Bonifaz said. “A lot of people at law school were focused on going out and making a ton of money.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="452" data-total-count="6083" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-7" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">In fact, that was not Mr. Froman’s initial career path. Straight out of law school, he went to Albania to help that tiny impoverished nation’s legal system. He spent most of the 1990s in the Clinton administration, at the White House and at Treasury, finally following Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin to Citigroup in 2001, only to return to Washington in 2009 to join the Obama White House as an emissary to international economic organizations.</p><figure id="media-100000003651328" class="embedded has-adjacency layout-small-vertical media-100000003651328 photo media" data-media-action="modal" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemid="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/04/28/business/28froman-web1/28froman-web1-master180.jpg" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" aria-label="media" role="group" style="margin: 6px 30px 45px 135px; position: relative; float: left; clear: left; width: 180px;"><span class="visually-hidden" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); overflow: hidden;">Photo</span><div class="image" style="position: relative; margin-bottom: 7px; cursor: pointer;"><img alt="" class="media-viewer-candidate" data-mediaviewer-src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/04/28/business/28froman-web1/28froman-web1-superJumbo.jpg" data-mediaviewer-caption="Michael Froman, the United States trade representative, is trying to land the largest trade accord in a generation." data-mediaviewer-credit="Yuya Shino/Reuters" itemprop="url" itemid="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/04/28/business/28froman-web1/28froman-web1-master180.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; 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line-height: 1.0625rem; font-family: nyt-cheltenham-sh, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="caption-text">Michael Froman, the United States trade representative, is trying to land the largest trade accord in a generation.</span><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 1rem; display: inline-block; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span class="visually-hidden" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); overflow: hidden;">Credit</span>Yuya Shino/Reuters </span></figcaption></figure><div class="nocontent ad ad-placeholder robots-nocontent" style="float: right; clear: right; margin: 0px 0px 40px 7px;"><a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/business/trans-pacific-partnership-puts-harvard-law-school-rivals-on-opposite-sides-again.html?_r=0#story-continues-8" style="position: absolute; 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clear: right; margin: 0px 0px 40px 7px; position: relative; min-width: 300px; min-height: 250px;"><a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/business/trans-pacific-partnership-puts-harvard-law-school-rivals-on-opposite-sides-again.html?_r=0#story-continues-8" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);">Continue reading the main story</a><iframe frameborder="0" class="frame-for-article ad-frame" style="border-style: none; width: 300px; height: 250px;"></iframe></div><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="423" data-total-count="6506" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-8" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">Through it all, his path kept crossing Ms. Wallach’s. In 1998, she bedeviled the Clinton administration with her campaign to deny the president new fast-track trade authority, a fight her side won. In 1999, as Mr. Rubin’s chief of staff at Treasury, Mr. Froman clashed with her over international efforts to expand the World Trade Organization, a campaign that died after anti-globalization activists rioted in Seattle.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="389" data-total-count="6895" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">Recalling her appearance before Citigroup executives at Mr. Froman’s behest, she said that ultimately she did not take the $20,000 speaking fee, settling for her standard, much smaller amount and a commercial flight. She told the executives that trade agreements were protecting corporations at the expense of poor people, keeping pharmaceutical prices high and access to food difficult.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="112" data-total-count="7007" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">A spokesman for the trade representative’s office, Matthew McAlvanah, took issue with Ms. Wallach’s account.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="241" data-total-count="7248" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">Mr. Froman “doesn’t recall Ms. Wallach from law school,” he said. “He does remember that she attended a Citigroup meeting but that her demands for a private jet and an exorbitant speaker fee were rejected. She participated anyway.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="397" data-total-count="7645" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">Their last one-on-one meeting took place three years ago, when he was Mr. Obama’s emissary to the Group of 20 and Group of 8 international economic organizations. The meeting was cordial but unproductive, she said. Late last year, Mr. Froman attended a meeting of liberal and labor groups to pitch fast-track status and the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, running into Ms. Wallach again.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="51" data-total-count="7696" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">“He had his head handed to him,” she recalled.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="199" data-total-count="7895" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">The Trans-Pacific Partnership would be the most significant trade deal since the North American Free Trade Agreement of 1993, linking nations representing 40 percent of the world’s economic output.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="408" data-total-count="8303" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">Many of those negotiating partners — especially Japan — have said they cannot agree to enter the partnership unless Congress grants the president trade promotion authority, which would allow Congress an up-or-down vote on the final accord without the right to amend it. Without such authority for the president, negotiators would be afraid to sign off on an agreement, only to see it muddied by Congress.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="276" data-total-count="8579" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">“If they like the trade agreement, they like Mr. Froman,” said Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat and a skeptic on free-trade agreements. “The critics say he is too secretive, and I think the administration is trying to change that now.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="320" data-total-count="8899" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">Ms. Wallach said she offered advice to her old adversary a year ago that he should have taken: Publish the text of the trade agreement. If the accord was so great, then everyone should be able see it, she says she told him. Otherwise, people would believe what they wanted to believe. He declined, much to her advantage.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="171" data-total-count="9070" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">“If I was the White House, I wouldn’t want him on the Hill anymore,” she said, with some good cheer. “For obvious reasons, I’m for having him there every day.”</p><p class="byline-dateline" style="margin: 4px 45px 0px 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; float: left;"><span class="byline" itemprop="author creator" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemid="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/jonathan_weisman/index.html" style="font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 0.75rem; font-weight: 700; font-family: nyt-cheltenham-sh, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 0.9375rem;" class="">A version of this article appears in print on April 28, 2015, on page B1 of the</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 0.9375rem;" class=""> </span><span itemprop="printEdition" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 0.9375rem;" class="">New York edition</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 0.9375rem;" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: nyt-franklin, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.6875rem; line-height: 0.9375rem;" class="">with the headline: Two From Harvard in Sharp Opposition on Trade Deal</span></span></p></div></div></header><div id="story-body" class="story-body"><div class="lede-container" style="float: none; clear: none;"><div class="lede-container-ads" style="float: right; clear: right;"><div id="MiddleRight" class="nocontent middle-right-ad marginalia-anchor-ad ad robots-nocontent" style="float: right; clear: right; margin: 0px 0px 40px 7px; position: relative; min-width: 300px; min-height: 250px;"></div><div id="MiddleRight" class="nocontent middle-right-ad marginalia-anchor-ad ad robots-nocontent" style="float: right; clear: right; margin: 0px 0px 40px 7px; position: relative; min-width: 300px; min-height: 250px;"><br class=""></div><div id="MiddleRight" class="nocontent middle-right-ad marginalia-anchor-ad ad robots-nocontent" style="float: right; clear: right; margin: 0px 0px 40px 7px; position: relative; min-width: 300px; min-height: 250px;"><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>