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The contributors to this blog are a diverse group of lawyers and law professors who practice, teach, or write about consumer law and policy. Although the blog is hosted by Public Citizen's Consumer Justice Project, the views expressed here are solely those of the individual contributors and do not necessarily reflect those of the institutions with which they are affiliated. To view the blog's statement of policies, please click here.
Coordinators
- Deepak Gupta
Public Citizen Litigation Group - Jeff Sovern
St. John's University School of Law
Other Contributors
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Richard Alderman
University of Houston Law Center -
David Arkush
Public Citizen's Congress Watch -
Greg Beck
Public Citizen Litigation Group -
Paul Bland
Public Justice -
Stephen Gardner
Center for Science in the Public Interest -
Samuel J. Glover
Samuel J. Glover & Associates, LLC (Minneapolis, MN) -
Paul Alan Levy
Public Citizen Litigation Group -
Orly Lobel
University of San Diego School of Law -
Scott Nelson
Public Citizen Litigation Group -
Chris Peterson
University of Florida Levin College of Law -
Michael Quirk
Williams Cuker Berezofsky -
Ira Rheingold
National Association of Consumer Advocates -
Christine Riefa
Brunel University School of Social Sciences and Law (UK) -
Jon Sheldon
National Consumer Law Center -
Alan White
Valparaiso University School of Law -
Brian Wolfman
Public Citizen Litigation Group / Harvard Law School
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Michael Quirk
Associate, Williams Cuker Berezofsky
One Penn Center At Suburban Station, 1617 JFK Boulevard, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA, 19103
(215) 557-0099 | Fax: (215) 557-0673 | E-mail: mquirk @ wcblegal.com
Michael J. Quirk is an associate with Williams Cuker Berezofsky in Philadelphia, where he represents consumers, workers, and toxic exposure victims. He is formerly an Equal Justice Works Fellow and staff attorney with Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, where his work focused primarily on fighting mandatory arbitration abuses. He is also formerly a Supreme Court Assistance Project Fellow with the Public Citizen Litigation Group. He has represented plaintiffs making successful challenges to mandatory arbitration provisions before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Tamayo v. Brainstorm USA, the New Jersey Supreme Court in Muhammad v. County Bank of Rehoboth Beach, Del., and the Mississippi Supreme Court in Sanderson Farms, Inc. v. Gatlin. He is co-author of the first four editions of Consumer Arbitration Agreements: Enforceability and Other Topics (NCLC and TLPJ Foundation 2004), part of the National Consumer Law Center’s Consumer Credit and Sales Practice Series. He also has written several articles on mandatory arbitration and other consumer rights issues. He graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School in 1999.
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May 2008
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17th Annual
Consumer Rights Litigation Conference, sponsored by the National Consumer
Law Center
October 24- 27, 2008, Portland, OR
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March 27- 29, 2008, Nashville, TN
