Consumer Law

Public Citizen Litigation Group Gets a New Director

By Deepak Gupta

On July 1, 2009, Allison Zieve became the new director of Public Citizen Litigation Group. Allison replaces Brian Wolfman, who had been with the group for nineteen years, five of them as its director. Brian moves on to the faculty of Georgetown University Law Center, where he will be co-director of the Institute for Public Representation clinic (a position recently vacated by David Vladeck, the new head of consumer protection at the FTC and himself a Public Citizen attorney for many years).

Allison's practice at the Litigation Group has focused on health and safety matters, federal preemption, open government, class action fairness, due process issues, and the first amendment. She has argued four cases before the United States Supreme Court, including two recent preemption cases?Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc., 128 S. Ct. 999 (2008), and Warner-Lambert v. Kent, 128 S.Ct. 1168 (2008)?and has spoken and published articles on the preemption of state-law damages actions, tobacco regulation, and the Freedom of Information Act, and taught courses as an adjunct professor of law.  Allison is also now the director of the Litigation Group?s Alan Morrison Supreme Court Assistance Project.

Allison joined the Litigation Group as a staff attorney in 1994, after practicing in California for several years. She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1986 and her law degree from Yale Law School in 1989.

Full post as published by CL&P Blog on July 08, 2009 (boomark / email).