Employee Spotlight

Dennis Cuevas

Dennis Cuevas, NAAG Consumer Protection Counsel

DENNIS CUEVAS was appointed NAAG’s Consumer Protection Project Director and Counsel in October 2006. Before his recent appointment, he was NAAG's Consumer Protection Project Manager and Counsel for nine years. Prior to joining NAAG, Dennis was a contract attorney with the U.S. Secret Service, where he handled the administrative forfeiture of property derived from bank fraud, credit card fraud, and money laundering.

As the head of NAAG’s Consumer Protection Project, Dennis works to improve the enforcement of state and federal consumer protection laws by state Attorneys General, as well as supports multistate consumer protection enforcement efforts. In addition, the Project promotes information exchange among the states with respect to investigations, litigation, consumer education, and both federal and state legislation. The Committee organizes two Consumer Protection Conferences annually and sponsors other enforcement and training conferences.

The consumer protection work of state Attorneys General over the past year has run the gamut from telemarketing to telecommunications and from prescription drugs and privacy to price-gouging.

Dennis received a B.A., in International Studies, from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he was a State Council of Higher Education for Virginia scholarship recipient. Dennis received his law degree from The Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan, where he was a writer for the Michigan Opinion Notes section of the Michigan Bar Journal. He also worked as a law clerk for Legal Aid of Central Michigan. He is a member of the District of Columbia and Georgia bars.

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