John W. Van Alst

John Van Alst is a staff attorney at NCLC and the director of NCLC’s Working Cars for Working Families project. His focus includes deceptive practices law, automobile fraud, rural issues, warranty, and manufactured home issues. Prior to joining NCLC John was an Attorney with Legal Aid of North Carolina. He was also the Chair of the North Carolina Consumer Law Task Force. He spent one year as a Visiting Clinical Supervisor at the University of North Carolina School of Law’s Civil Clinical Program supervising law students representing low-income clients. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law.

He is co-author of NCLC’s Automobile Fraud, Consumer Warranty Law, and Repossessions.

Jeremiah Battle, Jr.

Jeremiah Battle, Jr. is a senior attorney, author of NCLC’s Credit Discrimination, and a contributor to several NCLC treatises including Consumer Credit Regulation, Collection Actions, Repossessions, and Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices. Previously, he was a staff attorney with Essex Newark and Northeast New Jersey Legal Services where he focused on bankruptcy, consumer fraud, predatory mortgage lending and public benefits cases. He was also a managing attorney with New Jersey Protection and Advocacy, Inc., (now Disability Rights New Jersey) where he concentrated on disability rights issues. Jeremiah earned a B.A. with high honors from Rutgers University and a J.D. from Rutgers – Newark School of Law.