F. Paul Bland, Jr., Executive Director, has been a senior attorney at Public Justice since 1997. As Executive Director, Paul manages and leads Public Justice's legal and foundation staff, guiding the organization's litigation docket and other advocacy.
As staff and senior attorney, he was responsible for developing, handling, and helping Public Justice's cooperating attorneys litigate a diverse docket of public interest cases. Paul has argued and won more than 30 cases that led to reported decisions for consumers, employees or whistleblowers in six of the U.S. Courts of Appeals and the high courts of nine different states.
Paul has presented at more than 100 continuing legal education or professional conferences in more than 25 states; has testified in both houses of Congress, several state legislatures and administrative agencies; has been quoted in more than 100 periodicals throughout the country and has appeared in several radio and TV stories. Most recently, Paul made an oral argument before the Supreme Court for Home Depot, U.S.A. v. Jackson, arguing that the Class Action Fairness Act does not permit removal to federal court by a third-party counterclaim defendant.