Mr. Brian Wolfman

Law/Policy Mentor

Brian Wolfman is currently the Director of the Public Citizen Litigation Group, a national public interest law firm based in Washington, DC, where he has worked for 17 years. The Litigation Group is a division of Public Citizen, a non-profit consumer advocacy group that works to effect change in Congress, before federal regulatory agencies, and in the courts.
Mr. Wolfman’s litigation includes cases involving consumer health and safety regulation, freedom of information, expanding access to the courts, opposing federal preemption of state products liability law, and class actions. Prior to working at the Litigation Group, for five years, Mr. Wolfman represented poor people in a legal services program in rural Arkansas. He received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania and his JD from Harvard Law School.

Mr. Wolfman has argued four cases in front of the Supreme Court, winning three. He has taught courses on appellate courts at Stanford Law School and Georgetown University Law Center and currently teaches on a part time basis at Harvard Law School and American University Law School.