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JOHN SOUMILAS

JOHN SOUMILAS concentrates his practice in the area of consumer protection law, including fair credit reporting, fair debt collection, and consumer class actions.  Mr. Soumilas advocates on behalf of consumers against credit reporting agencies, debt collectors, banks, credit card companies, and other financial institutions.  He represents victims of identity theft, persons defamed and otherwise harmed by credit errors, individuals harassed and deceived by debt collectors, and many others who are subjected to unfair trade practices.  Mr. Soumilas also advocates on behalf of consumers in the areas of fair credit billing, consumer privacy, warranty law, automobile lemon law, and consumer fraud.

Mr. Soumilas’ career highlights include:

  • $800,000 jury verdict in FCRA action against Trans Union for inaccurate credit reporting:  Cortez v. Trans Union, LLC (Civil No. 05-5684, E.D. Pa., April 26, 2007);
  • Selected by Pennsylvania Super Lawyers and Philadelphia Magazine as a “Rising Star,” a recognition for up-and-coming attorneys under age 40 received by only 2.5% of attorneys in Pennsylvania; 
  • Certified by federal courts as Class Counsel in several consumer class actions, including: Nienaber v. Citibank (SD) N.A., 2006 WL 2850535 (D.S.D. Sept. 29, 2006); Seawell v. Universal Fidelity Corp, 235 F.R.D. 64 (E.D. Pa. 2006); Jordan v. Commonwealth Fin. Systems, Inc., 237 F.R.D. 132, 2006 WL 2294855 (E.D. Pa. 2006); Perry v. FleetBoston Financial Corp., 229 F.R.D.105 (E.D. Pa. 2005); Wisneski v. Nationwide Collections, Inc., 227 F.R.D. 259 (E.D. Pa. 2004).
  • Member of the National Association of Consumer Advocates;  
  • Former law clerk to Justice Russell M. Nigro of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Soumilas has been a featured speaker on consumer matters at the Philadelphia Housing Expo (2005 and 2006) and The People’s Law School in Philadelphia (2005). He has also lectured on fair debt collection and fair credit reporting at a continuing legal education seminar held by the Bucks County Bar Association (2005). Mr. Soumilas is the author of several papers and articles, including Compilations: Truth, Privacy, and the Work Product Doctrine, Temp. L. Rev. Vol. 74:1 (2000) and Recent EEO Decisions and Developments, with Mark S. Dichter, and is contributing author to Occupational Safety and Health Law (2d ed. 2002).

Mr. Soumilas is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, as well as the state courts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

A 1994 cum laude graduate of Rutgers University, Mr. Soumilas was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He also holds a master’s degree in American history from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Mr. Soumilas received his law degree cum laude from the Temple University Beasley School of Law in 1999, where he was a member of the Jessup Moot Court and Temple Law Review.