About
MADELINE L. HOUSTON received her B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1970 and her J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law, Newark, in 1976. She became admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1976. Ms. Houston has been litigating on behalf of New Jersey consumers given that 1982. Both as counsel for individual and training of consumers, and inside the capacity of amicus curiae, she has argued before the trial and appellate courts of New Jersey, the New Jersey Supreme Court, the USA District Court for the District of New Jersey, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Before getting into private practice in 1998, she served as Director of Litigation of the Passaic County Legal Aid Society and head of that workplace’s Consumer Unit for 16 years. In 1993 Legal Services of New Jersey mounted the “Madeline L. Houston Outstanding Lawyer Award” in her honor, an award that is nevertheless given yearly to a Legal Services lawyer who has furnished top notch service. In addition to litigation, Ms. Houston has engaged in severa different expert sports, along with serving as a panel member at the Rutgers School of Law Program on Protecting Workers and Consumers From Corporate Abuse (2014); serving as a panel member on the National Consumer Law Center Conference on Predatory Mortgage Cases: Settlement and Trial Issues (2004), serving as a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association Ad Hoc Committee on Consumer Protection Law (2002), serving as a presenter on the New Jersey State Bar Foundation Seminar on Consumer Fraud (2002, 2003), serving as a has club of the Supreme Court District Ethics Committee (1997), and attesting as a witness before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking with regard to proposed amendments to the federal Truth in Lending Act (1995). › ›
Location
Legal Issues
- Consumer Law
- Class Action, Lemon Law
- Civil Rights
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Discrimination, Employment, Fair Housing, Police Misconduct, Privacy Law
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Certificates
Languages
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Partner
Houston & Totaro, Lawyers-at-Law
1999 - Director of Litigation
Passaic County Legal Aid Society
1980 - Staff Lawyer
Passaic County Legal Aid Society
1977
Educations
Graduation year: 1973
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