Meet Attorney Alan Mansfield

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Attorney Alan M. Mansfield received his B.S. degree, cum laude, in Business Administration - Finance from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in 1983 and his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Denver School of Law in 1986. He is admitted to the bar of the State of California, to the United States District Courts for all Districts of California and to the Third, Fifth, Ninth and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeal.

Mr. Mansfield has specialized in the area of national consumer class action and public interest litigation since 1991. He has been involved over the years in numerous significant matters, including the:

Joe Camel teen smoking case, Mangini v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (1994) 7 Cal.4th 1057
DMV motor vehicle Smog Impact Fee refund case (Jordan v. Department of Motor Vehicles (1999) 75 Cal.App.4th 449)

Mr. Mansfield joined the firm of Rosner and Mansfield in 2001, having been responsible for several years for the consumer law group in the San Diego office of the largest class action firm in the United States, Lerach Coughlin Stoia Robbins Geller & Rudman (formerly the West Coast office of Milberg Weiss).

Mr. Mansfield's clients include the Utility Consumers' Action Network ("UCAN") and the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. He was also recently one of the lead counsel in the Garrett v. City of Escondido action in this United States District Court for the Southern District of California, which successfully challenged the legality of Escondido's anti-immigration landlord-tenant enforcement ordinance. Based on that case and other work he and his firm has performed in the community, his firm was awarded the 2007 Public Service by A Law Firm Award by the San Diego County Bar Association.

Since joining Rosner and Mansfield, Alan Mansfield has litigated a variety of class and private Attorney General actions to successful resolution, including a class action involving billing customers for previously promised airtime, resulting in:

A class action settlement that resulted in the ability of over 1 million customers to claim full reimbursement for the uncredited airtime (Nelson v. Virgin Mobile, Case No. 05-CV-1594-AJB (U.S. District Court, Southern District of California)
An action involving the unauthorized billing of consumers for Internet dial-up service that resulted in full refunds of over $1 million, significant practice changes and financial contributions to the California Consumer Protection Foundation (UCAN v. Prodigy Communications, San Diego Superior Court Case No. GIC 779435)
A class action involving billing for fees not permitted by law, resulting in a refund of the fees to over 250,000 small business customers (Frey v. AT&T, San Diego Superior Court Case No. GIC 837830)

Mr. Mansfield is a regular speaker and panelist in continuing legal education programs relating to California's consumer protection statutes, including making presentations to the California Center for Judicial Education and Research (July 2001), the Privacy Foundation (February 2007 and October 2005) and the Naval College for JAG Officers (May 2004).

He has written extensively on a number of subjects, including:

A chapter and update on the scope of the Consumers Legal Remedies Act in Anti-Trust and Unfair Competition Law - Third, published by the California Bar Association
"Is Your Client Prepared to Comply With the Data Security Breach Notification Laws?", San Diego Association of Business Trial Lawyers Report (Spring 2007)
"Has The Class Certification Inquiry Changed Due To Proposition 64?", State Bar of California Anti-Trust and Unfair Competition Section (May 2005)
"Hartwell: Are Courtroom Doors Open To Litigation Involving Regulated Industries?", San Diego ABTL Report (August 2002)
"Litigation Issues Arising from the Use of Websites," Practicing Law Institute (April 2001)
"Kraus, Cortez and Future Battlegrounds In Representative Actions Under the Unfair Competition Law," Consumer Attorneys of California Forum (July/August 2000) (co-authored with Mark A. Chavez)
"Private Enforcement of California's Consumer Protection Unfair Business Practices Act," CAOC Annual Meeting (November 1997)
"Life After BMW v. Gore - Who Is Now The Trier of Fact?," PLI (Fall 1997)

Mr. Mansfield is the current editor of the ABTL newsletter for the San Diego Chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, has previously served on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Consumer Advocates, and is a current member of the American Bar Association, the Anti-trust Section of the California Bar Association, the San Diego County Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, the Consumer Attorneys of California and San Diego, and the William B. Enright Inn of Court. He was also recently appointed to serve as an alternate lawyer representative for the Southern District of California and the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference.

If you are in need of an experienced consumer class action attorney, contact Alan Mansfield or any of the lawyers at Rosner and Mansfield LLP.