Law students often worry about identifying which substantive areas of law they are most interested in\, but it's just as important to think about the method of lawyering that you want to use t o further the public interest. Join Wasserstein Fellow Adam Pulver\, an attorney at Public Citizen Litigation Group focusing on administrative law litigation and appellate and Supreme Court work\, as he discusses his caree r as a public interest lawyer focused on litigation in various settings\, w orking in substantive areas ranging from police misconduct and prisoners' r ights to administrative law and consumer class actions. Adam will discuss t he differences litigating in various practice settings\; the differences in direct representation\, class action practice\, and impact litigation\; an d the differences between trial and appellate work. He will also share the ups and downs of litigating in a hostile judicial environment\, and how lit igation itself can be your specialty.
Lunch provided. Please RSVP bel ow! Open to the HLS community.
If you or an event participant require s disability-related accommodations\, please contact HLS Accessibility Serv ices at accessibility@law.ha rvard.edu two weeks in advance of the event.
Adam Pulver is an at torney at Public Citizen Litigation Group\, where he specializes in adminis trative law and appellate and Supreme Court litigation on behalf of consume rs\, workers\, and civil rights plaintiffs. Prior to joining the Litigation Group in 2017\, Adam worked in a variety of public interest positions. Mos t recently\, he was a Senior Attorney at the Office of the Solicitor of Lab or at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)\, working on a variety of litigati on and non-litigation matters relating to discrimination\, labor union gove rnance\, and labor-management relations. Prior to joining DOL\, he spent se veral years as an associate at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP in New York\, where he litigated cases in state and federal courts at all levels\, with an emphasis on civil rights cases under section 1983 and the Fair Hou sing Act. Following law school\, Adam served as a law clerk to the Honorabl e Christina A. Snyder\, Honorable Stephen G. Larson\, and Honorable Virgini a A. Phillips\, all of the United States District Court for the Central Dis trict of California. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 2008\, where he was a James Kent Scholar and Dean’s Public Interest Law Scholar\, and re ceived the Allan Morrow Prize for Sexuality and Gender Law. Adam earned his undergraduate degree from Tufts University.
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