Melissa Wright
Melissa Wright is an Assistant Attorney General and the Section Chief of the Consumer Protection Section of the Ohio Attorney General’s Office. In this role, Melissa provides legal advice and assistance with all matters involving the section and with Ohio’s consumer protection laws, including related bankruptcy and multistate matters. Melissa obtained her Bachelor of Arts…
Monica N. Anderson
Monica N. Anderson is the Senior Assistant Attorney General for the Correctional Law Section of the California Attorney General’s Office, which litigates civil rights actions challenging the constitutionality of prison conditions. Ms. Anderson currently supervises over 100 attorneys and 20 paralegals throughout the state of California. Through litigation of class action cases, Ms. Anderson has…
Marc Abrams
Marc Abrams is Assistant Attorney in Charge of the Civil Litigation Section of the Oregon Department of Justice, where he is lead attorney for employment litigation. He joined ODOJ in 2002 after a decade in firms in New York, Philadelphia and Portland, and a decade in sole practice and as a pro tem judge handling…
Margaret A. Cotoia
Assistant Attorney General Margaret A. Cotoia is the Director of the New Jersey Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute, which provides continuing legal education programs that meet the practice needs of New Jersey government lawyers. Margaret maintains overall responsibility for over 150 programs a year, recruiting instructors and developing curriculum for the AGAI’s lecture programs, supervising litigation…
Mary L. Lucasse
Mary Lucasse has been a Special Deputy Attorney General in the Environmental Division of the North Carolina Department of Justice (“NCDOJ”) since 2009. Prior to joining the NCDOJ, she had extensive complex civil litigation experience working for the Maryland Office of the Attorney General (from 1986 – 1991) and in private practice in Honolulu, Hawaii…
Katharine Brooks
Katharine Brooks is the Bureau Chief of the Claims Bureau in the New York State Attorney General’s Office. She received a B.A., summa cum laude, in 1975 from SUNY Albany, and a J.D. in 1978 from Hofstra University School of Law. In her present position, Ms. Brooks is responsible for the oversight of all Claims…
Laurie Lyte
Laurie Lyte is Director of the Professional Development and Planning Division at the Maryland Office of the Attorney General where she is responsible for developing and implementing continuing legal education programs for attorneys and legal assistants in the office. She also serves as director of the office’s Law Clerk, Intern, and Associate programs. Laurie is…
Kimberly S. Cammarata
Kimberly S. Cammarata is a Senior Assistant Attorney General with the Maryland Office of the Attorney General and has served as the Director of the Consumer Protection Division’s Health Education and Advocacy Unit since 2010. She is responsible for the direction and management of the Health Education and Advocacy Unit’s consumer mediation services and health…
Judy Zeprun Kalman
Judy Zeprun Kalman retired in 2019 after serving more than thirty years in state government, most recently as General Counsel at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. In that role, she provided legal counsel to the Executive Bureau on personnel, contracts, conflicts of interest, and ethics issues and assisted in developing internal policies, guidelines, and procedures,…
Karla E. Zarbo
Karla E. Zarbo retired from the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Fair Labor Division as an Assistant Attorney General where she handled civil, criminal, and administrative enforcement matters on behalf of the Division for 23 years. The Division is responsible for enforcement of the Commonwealth’s various Wage and Hour Laws, including the Wage Act, the Independent Contractor…
