Nationally renowned consumer lawyer Leonard A. Bennett received the National Consumer Law Center’s 2025 Vern Countryman Award. Founding Partner of the Virginia law firm Consumer Litigation Associates, Bennett has been a fierce consumer advocate for decades, winning multimillion-dollar judgments against payday loan businesses, debt collectors, credit reporting agencies, and scam lenders. He also devotes considerable…
Janet Varnell is the managing partner of Varnell & Warwick. The 2024 winner of NCLC’s prestigious Vern Countryman Award, she is an expert expert in consumer class actions, she also handles civil rights, worker’s rights, environmental protection, and other high-impact public interest litigation. She has prosecuted a variety of multi-million-dollar disputes with governmental entities and companies such as AT&T,…
David Sugerman currently serves on the executive committee of Public Justice and teaches as adjunct faculty at Lewis & Clark Law School. He has dedicated decades of his career to representing consumers in Oregon, focusing on complex litigation, including consumer protection and civil rights class actions, mass torts, and mass arbitrations. David served as lead…
Jane Greengold Stevens is co-director of the special litigation unit at New York Legal Assistance Group in New York City. She has worked in legal aid for most of her 50-year legal career, starting at Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago in 1969. In her many years of practice, she has been a passionate champion for…
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