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Brian Wolfman is currently Professor from Practice and Director of the Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic at Georgetown Law. For nearly 20 years, he was a staff lawyer at Public Citizen Litigation Group, serving the last five years as the Group's director and Public Citizen's general counsel.
He was previously Professor of the Practice of Law at Stanford Law School and a faculty member in Stanford’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. He is a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches the appellate courts and advocacy workshop.
Brian has argued six cases before the U.S. Supreme Court (winning five) and dozens of other cases before appellate and trial courts nationwide. Brian was "of counsel" to Gupta Wessler from the firm’s founding through March 2016. At the start of his legal career, for 5 years, Brian was a poverty lawyer in rural Arkansas.
Brian handles a broad range of litigation, including cases involving employment discrimination and other employment rights, prisoner's rights, special-education law, health and safety regulation, class actions, court-access issues, federal preemption, consumer law, public-benefits law, and government transparency.
Brian is a member of the American Law Institute and was an Advisor to the Institute’s Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation, akin to a “restatement” of the law governing class actions. He has written articles concerning class actions, federal preemption, administrative law, and other topics.
He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Pennsylvania.