Karima Grady
Karima Grady was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in Atlanta, GA. She graduated from Georgia Tech with a BS in Management in 2003. She went on to live and work abroad for several years teaching English as a second language in Tokyo, South Korea, and Thailand. Upon returning to the States, Karima attended law…
Joe Fincham
Joe Fincham is an Assistant Attorney General in the New Hampshire Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Unit. Joe has served as a prosecutor for over ten years in New Hampshire and West Virginia, prosecuting murder, organized crime, public corruption, sexual assault, and drug trafficking. Joe has also previously worked as a public defender and civil…
Joe Grubb
I have prosecuted a variety of crimes from misdemeanor to capital murder, which is inclusive of 100s of trials in Delaware’s Superior Court, Family Court and Court of Common Pleas as well as Justice of the Peace courts. I am currently assigned to Homicide Unit and previously served in the Misdemeanor Trial Unit, Domestic Violence…
Jessica Smith
Jessica Smith is an Assistant Attorney General and Division Director of the Mortgage and Financial Fraud Division at the Utah Attorney General’s Office. The Division prosecutes mortgage, securities, and tax fraud cases as well as other complex financial fraud cases throughout Utah. She has been a prosecutor for more than 17 years for both local…
Jennifer Cotter
Jennifer Cotter is the Deputy Criminal Bureau Chief at the Office of the Attorney General. Attorney Cotter assists the Bureau Chief in the oversight of 120 staff members including assistant attorneys general, paralegals, financial investigators, victim witness staff, administrative assistants, and law enforcement. Prior to that role, she was the Chief of the Criminal White-Collar…
James Sweeney
Jim Sweeney is State Trial Counsel for the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. In that role, he consults, advises and works on litigation across the Office, both affirmative and defensive. He has been an Assistant Attorney General for over 30 years, serving for many years in the Office’s Trial Division, handling primarily defensive civil litigation. He…
Harley Kirkland
A native South Carolinian, Harley Littleton Kirkland attended Wofford College and the University of South Carolina School of Law. She is admitted to the South Carolina Bar, the South Carolina Federal District Court, and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. In 2014, Harley began working for Deloitte as a Litigation Technology Specialist. She provided technical…
David Wilkins
David Wilkins serves as an Assistant Attorney General and as the Director of Transit Law for the Utah Attorney General’s Office. A section within the Office’s Highways & Utilities Division, David represents the Utah Transit Authority, a large public transit district which serves riders in six counties. In his role, David serves as the transit…
Attorney General Remedies Under Iowa Consumer Fraud Act Are Equitable, Not Legal, Do Not Require Jury Trial
The Iowa supreme court recently analyzed the state’s consumer protection statute and found that the attorney general’s enforcement of the statute does not require a jury trial because they are equitable, rather than legal. The Iowa attorney general sued several companies, alleging false and misleading claims in violation of Iowa’s Consumer Fraud Act (CFA) and…