Carl J. Mayer

Carl J. Mayer
Born (1959-04-23) April 23, 1959 (age 65)
Brookline, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
EducationPrinceton University
University of Chicago Law School
Harvard Law School
Occupation(s)Lawyer, politician, author, public speaker and consumer advocate
SpouseKaren Stephanie Zemble
Parents
WebsiteCurrently down

Carl J. Mayer (born April 23, 1959 in Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American lawyer, politician, author, public speaker and consumer advocate.

He is the founder of the law firm Mayer Law Group LLC, as well as a former elected member of the Township Committee in Princeton, New Jersey.

Mayer is best known for taking on political corruption and corporate lobbyists and was profiled by the CBS news program 60 Minutes for those efforts.

Working with the news program, Mayer went undercover and exposed illegal payments between corporate lobbyists and politicians. As a result of the exposé, dozens of politicians and lobbyists were indicted and convicted.[1]

Mayer's law firm has litigated and prevailed against some of the largest corporations in the world on behalf of consumers, workers, senior citizens and taxpayers. His firm has recovered tens of millions of dollars for thousands of class members defrauded by unlawful or deceptive corporate practices.[2] Mayer's firm has successfully sued Verizon (the world's 40th largest corporation) on behalf of consumers overcharged on their phone bills[3] and successfully sued the world's largest water utility – GDF Suez, a French multinational corporation—for selling phony warranties to minorities and inner city residents in America.[4] Mayer represents senior citizens in lawsuits against Assisted-Living facilities that overbill customers.

Long before the Supreme Court decided Citizens United in 2010, Mayer wrote the first law review article calling for the elimination of corporate rights under the United States constitution which nowhere mentions corporations.[5]

A former law professor, Mayer also served as special counsel to the United States Senate Special Committee on Investigations and as special counsel to the New York State Attorney General, where he helped bring a litigation against the gun companies for negligently marketing their products.

Additionally, in June 2017, before NJ Transit's "summer of hell" Mayer wrote an op-ed, "NJ Transit riders of the world, unite!" calling for a passenger sit-in as an act of protest over the terrible conditions New Jersey commuters are being submitted to.[6]

  1. ^ Smothers, Ronald (2002-04-20). "Company at Center of an Inquiry". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
  2. ^ "Mayer Law Group: Consumer Class Actions, Civil Rights, Securities". Mayer Law Group, LLC. Archived from the original on 2018-01-02. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
  3. ^ "Enerson v. Verizon Settlement Website". www.verizonjacksettlement.com. Archived from the original on 2017-05-22. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
  4. ^ "HomeServe Service Plan Class Action Lawsuit Settlement". Top Class Actions. 2015-11-11. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
  5. ^ "Personalizing the Impersonal: Corporations and the Bill of Rights". Reclaim Democracy!. 2012-07-14. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
  6. ^ "NJ Transit riders of the world, unite!". NY Daily News. Retrieved 2017-06-26.