Elaine S. Kusel
Attorney

Elaine S. Kusel joined McCuneWright in the "Of Counsel" capacity in 2008. As a nationally renowned Class Action Attorney, she performs a significant role in the McCuneWright Consumer Fraud Class Action division.

After college, Ms. Kusel spent eight years working in the U. S. House of Representatives, where she eventually served as Legislative Director and Counsel to a Member of Congress serving on the House Commerce Committee. After graduating from law school, Ms. Kusel's practice has included fraud litigation, mass torts, and international human rights law. Among the notable cases she helped prosecute are In re Lucent Technologies Securities Litigation; Baycol; and Abdullahi v. Pfizer, a case in which she represented Nigerian children enrolled in a clinical trial by Pfizer without their families' informed consent.

Associations
  • New York Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • Eastern District of Michigan
  • Association of Trial Lawyers of America

Education

  • J.D., George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC, 1994
  • B.S., Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 1987
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