Craig Briskin joined the Washington, D.C. office of Mehri & Skalet, PLLC in 2007 and became a partner in 2009.  He focuses his practice primarily on antitrust and consumer class action law.  In Motley v. Homecomings Financial, LLC, he represents homeowners who allege that the defendant is improperly servicing their mortgages. He also represents a plaintiff in a consumer warranty case against American Standard Companies, alleging that the company’s "Champion" model toilet was improperly designed, causing it to break and leak. And in Somers v Apple, Inc., he represents a consumer who alleges that Apple has engaged in antitrust violations concerning the iPod and iTunes.  Mr. Briskin was class counsel in a case alleging a brake defect in the Ford Focus, which was successfully settled in 2008.
 
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Briskin prosecuted antitrust and commodities class actions at Labaton Sucharow LLP in New York.  Among other matters, Mr. Briskin represented a class of natural gas futures traders who claimed damages resulting from defendant natural gas traders’ manipulation of prices through false reporting to industry publications.  Settlements with defendants, the last of which were approved in June 2007, were in excess of $100 million.  Mr. Briskin also represented consumers and third-party payors in several successful antitrust actions alleging that brand-name drugmakers blocked generic competition and charged supracompetitive prices for their products, through abuse of the patent system and sham litigation.
 
From 1999-2001, Mr. Briskin was an Equal Justice Works fellow at New York Legal Assistance Group.  He represented indigent and primarily immigrant clients in welfare, disability and immigration matters, in administrative hearings, and in state and federal court.
 
Mr. Briskin received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1998. He was a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, and a senior editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.  He co-authored an article for that publication titled “The Waging of Welfare: All Work And No Pay?”  33 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 559 (1998).  Mr. Briskin also interned for Public Citizen and the American Civil Liberties Union. After law school, Mr. Briskin clerked for Justice Alexander O. Bryner of the Alaska Supreme Court. 
 
Mr. Briskin graduated from Harvard College in 1994, with an A.B. cum laude in Psychology.

Email: cbriskin@findjustice.com