Indiana attorney Duran Keller received the National Consumer Law Center’s 2025 Rising Star Award. Keller was recognized with the Rising Star award for work representing individuals and classes of people damaged by credit reporting agencies and debt collectors in his solo practice. Keller founded Keller Law in his hometown of Lafayette, Indiana, in 2014. He…
Erin Witte, Director of Consumer Protection for the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), received the National Consumer Law Center’s 2025 Rising Star Award. Prior to joining CFA, Witte was an assistant attorney general for the Commonwealth of Virginia, where she litigated consumer protection cases in Virginia state and federal courts. She also worked in private…
Daniel J. Schneider is supervisory attorney at Legal Action Chicago, where he oversees complex litigation and policy initiatives focused on assisting and removing barriers for people in poverty, particularly in the areas of housing, consumer rights, and public utilities. In 2023, Daniel helped to secure groundbreaking discount rates for 1 million-plus Illinois gas utility customers, and he…
Annie Rodriguez is a staff attorney in the Housing and Consumer Unit at Jacksonville Area Legal Aid in Florida, focusing on preserving homeownership for people with low incomes and protecting low-income people with medical debt. Her work has included mortgage and reverse mortgage foreclosure and servicing claims, debt defense, auto sales and finance, consumer counterclaims in…
Jessica Ranucci is a supervising attorney in the New York Legal Assistance Group’s Special Litigation Unit, which focuses on federal court class actions benefitting low-income consumers. She has successfully litigated cases related to student loans, predatory for-profit schools, and debt collection with multi-million dollar judgments. She has served on two U.S. Department of Education negotiated rulemaking…
Ariel Levinson-Waldman is founding president and director-counsel of Tzedek DC, a public interest center headquartered at the University of the District of Columbia. Under his leadership, Tzedek DC has provided free legal help to more than 2,000 D.C. households facing debt collection, consumer, or credit problems. In 2016, Ariel was appointed by Chief Judge Merrick Garland…
Oregon solo practitioner Kelly Jones has helped obtain millions of dollars in relief for injured Oregonians in federal and state court, in both individual and class action litigation. The central focus of his practice has been on consumer protection, civil rights, and class action litigation, representing Oregonians who have been injured by the unlawful conduct of banks,…
Kathleen Hyland, assistant attorney general in the Consumer Protection Division of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General, has served as president of the board of directors of the Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition and as Maryland state chair of the National Association of Consumer Advocates. She has championed critical consumer protection legislation, drafting legislation to…
Colin Harnsgate was recognized with the Rising Star award for his work as senior staff attorney in Bankruptcy and Consumer Units at the Volunteer Lawyers Project in Boston, where he focuses on debt collection, eviction defense, and affirmative consumer litigation. He was recently appointed to the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission, which seeks to improve access…
Adam is the Division Chief of the Consumer Advocacy and Litigation Unit at Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc. (JALA). He has a passion for credit reporting and background check issues and currently works in JALA’s main office in downtown Jacksonville. Adam joined JALA in 2009 shortly after his graduation from law school. He currently represents…
Neil is an associate at Gupta Wessler PLLC, based in the firm’s San Francisco office, where he focuses on representing plaintiffs and public-interest clients in appellate, constitutional, and complex litigation. A Bay Area native, Neil was the firm’s first Fellow in Appellate and Constitutional Litigation in 2015 to 2016, between his clerkships with the Honorable…
Rebecca Borné serves as senior policy counsel at the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), which she joined 12 years ago. CRL is a research and policy organization dedicated to protecting homeownership and family wealth by working to eliminate abusive financial practices. CRL is an affiliate of Self-Help Credit Union, one of the nation’s largest community…
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