Ted Frank is the founder and president of the Center for Class Action Fairness, the only public interest law firm that fully represents the interests of consumers in pending class actions.  Previously, Mr. Frank clerked for the Honorable Frank H. Easterbrook on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, was a litigator for ten years, and served as the first director of the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest. Mr. Frank has written for law reviews, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and The American Spectator and has testified before Congress multiple times on legal issues. He writes for the award-winning legal blogs PointOfLaw.com and Overlawyered, and the Wall Street Journal has called him a "leading tort-reform advocate."  In 2008, Mr. Frank was elected to membership in the American Law Institute.  He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society Litigation Practice Group.  Mr. Frank graduated the University of Chicago Law School in 1994 with high honors and as a member of the Order of the Coif and the Law Review.