As director of the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest, Frank manages the Institute's research in and studies liability reform. His research areas include products liability (including pharmaceuticals and asbestos), class actions and civil procedure, corporate regulation, antitrust and patent litigation, lifestyle litigation, medical malpractice, and judicial selection. Before joining AEI in 2005, Frank was a litigator in private practice; his litigation experience includes defending the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election against an ACLU constitutional challenge, Vioxx and automobile products liability cases, class action defense, and antitrust and patent cases. Frank has also argued successfully in front of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals multiple times and sits on the Federalist Society’s Litigation Practice Group Executive Committee. 

Frank is also a regular contributor to the liability reform weblogs Overlawyered.com and PointofLaw.com.

-Counsel, O’Melveny & Myers, 2001-2005

-Associate, Irell & Manella, 1997-2001

-Associate, Kirkland & Ellis, 1995-1997

-Law clerk, Judge Frank H. Easterbrook, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 1994-1995

Education

J.D., University of Chicago Law School

B.A., Brandeis University

Articles and Short Publications

Blame Port Authority Battling Zombies Cy Pres Settlements

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Events

Off-Label Uses of Approved Drugs: Medicine, Law, and Policy Federal Preemption and the Supreme Court The Vioxx Settlement

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Speaking Engagements

Paying with Their Lives: The Status of Compensation for 9/11 Health Effects The Milberg Weiss Indictment and H.R. 5491