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Nationally renowned in the fields of constitutional law, torts, contract law and consumer law, Professor Gary Peller of Georgetown University Law Center serves as Of Counsel to the firm.
He has worked with KMB partners on important litigation in the past. Along with Mr. Marshall, he served as lead class counsel in a nationwide class-action lawsuit against the “payday” lending industry that resulted in a $50 million dollar settlement for low-income borrowers. He also served on the class counsel executive committee in the multi-district litigation that secured a $42 million settlement of multiple class-action lawsuits against the magazine sweepstakes industry in 2000.
Professor Peller has served as litigation counsel, appellate counsel and the author of amicus curae briefs in a number of civil rights, civil liberties and consumer cases. He has also served as co-counsel with Ms. Katz in a First Amendment challenge to National Public Radio’s censorship of Mumia Abu Jumal, a Pennsylvania death row prisoner.
He earned a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Emory University in 1977. After graduating magna cum laude in 1980 from Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review and won the Sears Prize for earning the highest grades in his class, Professor Peller clerked for two years for the Honorable Morris Lasker of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Before joining the Georgetown Law faculty, Professor Peller taught at the University of Virginia Law School from 1982 to 1988. An internationally recognized legal scholar, he is widely published in the areas of constitutional law, torts and legal theory.
Professor Peller is a member of the Bar of the State of Maryland, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. KMB intends to involve Professor Peller in consumer class actions and cases that implicate important questions of constitutional law.