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Ted Frank

Ted Frank
Born (1968-12-14) December 14, 1968 (age 55)
EducationBrandeis University (BA)
University of Chicago (JD)
OccupationLawyer
Years active1995–present

Theodore Harold Frank (born December 14, 1968) is an American lawyer, activist, and legal writer based in Washington, D.C.[1] He is the counsel of record and petitioner in Frank v. Gaos, the first Supreme Court case to deal with the issue of cy pres in class action settlements; he is one of the few Supreme Court attorneys ever to argue his own case.[2] He wrote the vetting report of vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin for the John McCain campaign in the 2008 presidential election.[3] He founded the Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF) in 2009; it temporarily merged with the Competitive Enterprise Institute in 2015,[4][5] but as of 2019 CCAF is now part of the new Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, a free-market nonprofit public-interest law firm founded by Frank and his CCAF colleague Melissa Holyoak.[6]

The New York Times calls him the "leading critic of abusive class-action settlements";[7] the Wall Street Journal has referred to him as "a leading tort-reform advocate"[8] and praised his work exposing dubious practices by plaintiffs' attorneys in class actions.[9][10]

Frank graduated from Brandeis University in 1991, and the University of Chicago Law School in 1994 with a JD. A litigator from 1995 to 2005, and a former clerk for Frank H. Easterbrook on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Frank was a director and fellow of the Legal Center for the Public Interest at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.[11][12][13] He was an adjunct fellow at Manhattan Institute’s Center for Legal Policy, where he was editor of the Institute's web magazine, PointofLaw.com. He was on the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society's Litigation Practice Group and contributed to conservative legal weblogs, and, as of 2008, was a member of the American Law Institute.[14]

  1. ^ Rizo, Chris (24 February 2010). "Group puts the brakes on Honda class action settlement". The Southeast Texas Record. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
  2. ^ Mauro, Tony (August 29, 2018). "Get Ready for a Frank Oral Argument". Supreme Court Brief. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  3. ^ Heilemann, John & Halperin, Mark (11 January 2010). Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (1 ed.). Harper. ISBN 978-0-06-173363-5.
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  6. ^ Tony Mauro and Marcia Coyle (7 January 2019). "Serial Adversaries at SCOTUS - Ted Frank's New Gig". Supreme Court Brief. Retrieved 26 March 2019."Announcing Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute". Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute. 17 December 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  7. ^ Liptak, Adam (August 13, 2013). "When Lawyers Cut Their Clients Out of the Deal". New York Times.
  8. ^ Lattman, Peter (October 30, 2006). "Trial Lawyers Defend Themselves While Taking On Terrorism". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 25 August 2007.
  9. ^ Frankel, Alison (20 February 2018). "DOJ signals new interest in policing class action settlements". Reuters. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  10. ^ "The Anthem Class-Action Con". Wall Street Journal. 11 February 2018. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  11. ^ Cincinnati Magazine. Emmis Communications. July 2009. p. 108. ISSN 0746-8210. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  12. ^ Brickman, Lester (31 January 2011). Lawyer Barons: What Their Contingency Fees Really Cost America. Cambridge University Press. p. 230. ISBN 978-0-521-18949-1. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  13. ^ "Challenging Cy Pres Scams". Connecticut Law Tribune. 22 November 2010. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  14. ^ "New Members Elected". ALI Reporter (American Law Institute). Archived from the original on May 23, 2011. Retrieved March 23, 2009.

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