Ted Frank

Ted Frank

Theodore H. Frank (born December 14, 1968) is an American lawyer, activist, legal writer and blogger, based in Washington, D.C.. He is noted for writing the vetting report for vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin for the John McCain campaign in the 2008 presidential election. He is the founder and president of the Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF), established in 2009. Particularly active in protecting consumers from their own class action lawyers, in product liability, and in civil procedure, the Wall Street Journal has referred to him as "a leading tort-reform advocate."

Frank graduated from the Brandeis University in 1991 and the University of Chicago Law School in 1994 with a Juris Doctor. A litigator from 1995 to 2005 and former clerk for Frank H. Easterbrook on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Frank was a director and fellow of the Legal Center for the Public Interest at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C. As of 2011 he is an adjunct fellow at Manhattan Institute’s Center for Legal Policy, where he is also editor of the Institute's web magazine, PointofLaw.com. He is also on the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society's Litigation Practice Group and contributes regularly to conservative legal weblogs, and as of 2008, he is a member of the American Law Institute.