Madeline Houston

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Houston & Totaro, Attorneys-at-Law: Lawyers for New Jersey Consumers

Experience: 47 years

Consumer Law and Civil Rights

Certificate of Appreciation - Meritorious Public Service, Establishment of annual Madeline L. Houston Outstanding Attorney Award and Ronald B. Atlas Award

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Experience 47y

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MADELINE L. HOUSTON received her B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1970 and her J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law, Newark, in 1976. She was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1976. Ms. Houston has been litigating on behalf of New Jersey consumers since 1982. Both as counsel for individual and classes of consumers, and in the capacity of amicus curiae, she has argued before the trial and appellate courts of New Jersey, the New Jersey Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Before entering private practice in 1998, she served as Director of Litigation of the Passaic County Legal Aid Society and head of that office’s Consumer Unit for 16 years. In 1993 Legal Services of New Jersey established the “Madeline L. Houston Outstanding Attorney Award” in her honor, an award that is still given annually to a Legal Services attorney who has provided exceptional service. In addition to litigation, Ms. Houston has engaged in numerous other professional activities, such as serving as a panel member at the Rutgers School of Law Program on Protecting Workers and Consumers From Corporate Abuse (2014); serving as a panel member at the National Consumer Law Center Conference on Predatory Mortgage Cases: Settlement and Trial Issues (2004), serving as a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association Ad Hoc Committee on Consumer Protection Law (2002), serving as a presenter at the New Jersey State Bar Foundation Seminar on Consumer Fraud (2002, 2003), serving as a Member of the Supreme Court District Ethics Committee (1997), and testifying as a witness before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking with regard to proposed amendments to the federal Truth in Lending Act (1995).

Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice

New Jersey

Since 1976

Professional Experience

1999 - Current

Houston & Totaro, Attorneys-at-Law

Partner

1980 - 1998

Passaic County Legal Aid Society

Director of Litigation

1977 - 1980

Passaic County Legal Aid Society

Staff Attorney

Education

1973 - 1976

Rutgers School of Law-Newark

J.D. (1976) | Law

Awards

year - Madeline Houston

Certificate of Appreciation - Meritorious Public Service

Supreme Court of New Jersey

year - Madeline Houston

Establishment of annual Madeline L. Houston Outstanding Attorney Award

Legal Services of New Jersey

year - Madeline Houston

Ronald B. Atlas Award

Legal Services of New Jersey

Contacts

Houston & Totaro 195 Fairfield Avenue Unit 1A West Caldwell NJ 07006 Telephone: (973) 228-6200 Fax: (973) 228-6213

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Madeline Houston Houston & Totaro, Attorneys-at-Law: Lawyers for New Jersey Consumers

Experience: 47 years

Website: Open

Phone: (973) 228-6200

Location: USA

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Practice Areas

Consumer Law

Class Action, Lemon Law

Civil Rights

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Discrimination, Employment, Fair Housing, Police Misconduct, Privacy Law

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