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Theodore H. "Ted" Frank (born December 14, 1968) is an American lawyer, activist, legal writer and blogger, based in Washington, D.C.. He is noted for writing the vetting report for vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin for the John McCain campaign in the 2008 presidential election. He is the founder and president of the Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF), established in 2009.〔〔 The ''New York Times'' calls him the "leading critic of abusive class-action settlements"; the ''Wall Street Journal'' has referred to him as "a leading tort-reform advocate." Frank graduated from the Brandeis University in 1991 and the University of Chicago Law School in 1994 with a ''Juris Doctor''. A litigator from 1995 to 2005 and former clerk for Frank H. Easterbrook on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Frank was a director and fellow of the Legal Center for the Public Interest at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C. As of 2011 he is an adjunct fellow at Manhattan Institute’s Center for Legal Policy, where he is also editor of the Institute's web magazine, ''PointofLaw.com''. He is also on the Executive Committee of the Federalist Society's Litigation Practice Group and contributes regularly to conservative legal weblogs, and as of 2008, he is a member of the American Law Institute.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.ali.org/_news/reporter/fall2008/newmembers.htm )〕 ==Background and early career== Frank was born in 1968. He is a grandson of journalist Nelson Frank, a nephew of author Johanna Hurwitz, and a cousin of the politics editor of ''The Atlantic Online'', Garance Franke-Ruta. He graduated from the Benjamin Franklin High School in New Orleans, then earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Brandeis University in May 1991.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Resume )〕 He wrote columns for his campus newspaper and political magazines and was a member of the student senate. He objected to a campaign to stop serving pork at the Jewish university, which was noted in ''The New York Times''. In 1994 Frank earned his ''Juris Doctor'' with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School.〔O'Brien, John (July 16, 2007), (Attorney: W. Va. SC ignoring law for benefit of trial lawyers ), ''The West Virginia Record''. Retrieved September 1, 2007.〕 At Chicago he earned Order of the Coif and served on the law review.〔Frank wrote a student comment, "(The Economic Interest Test and Collective Action Problems in Antitrust Tie-in Cases )", 61 U. Chi. L. Rev. 639.〕 While at Chicago Law, he was a known presence on Usenet groups and researched urban legends; he was an early contributor to the Baseball Prospectus collective through essays on the Usenet group rec.sport.baseball.〔''Baseball Prospectus '97''. Joe Sheehan, Clay Davenport, and Gary Huckabay, Eds. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books Inc. (former Brassey’s Inc.), 1997. ISBN 0-9655674-0-0.〕 He has also been described as one of the most notorious contributors along with snopes to an activity then known as "trolling for newbies" (the term "trolling" was not negative in connotation).〔See Michele Tepper, "Usenet Communities and the Cultural Politics of Information" in David Porter, ed., (Internet Culture (1997) ) at 48 ("()he two most notorious trollers in AFU, Ted Frank and snopes, are also two of the most consistent posters of serious research.").〕 After clerking for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Frank entered private practice between 1995 and 2005 as a litigator on class action tort cases at law firms Kirkland & Ellis, Irell & Manella, and O’Melveny & Myers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ted Frank Biography )〕 Among his earliest cases were two sudden acceleration cases, where he represented the automakers. As part of his practice, Frank defended a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to delay the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election, defended Vioxx liability cases, and served on defense teams for antitrust and patent cases. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ted Frank」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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