Elaine S. Kusel first 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. Elaine is a member of the New York Bar Association.
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, her practice has included fraud litigation, mass torts, and international human rights law. Among the notable cases she prosecute are in re Lucent Technologies Securities Litigation; Abdullahi v. Pfizer, a case in which she represented Nigerian children enrolled in a clinical trial by Pfizer without their families' informed consent and Gutierrez v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., a case in which her work helped secure a $203 million dollar class action verdict.