Stuart Rossman retired at the end of 2023 after serving for 24 years as the first Director of Litigation at the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC). NCLC is a national nonprofit public interest advocacy organization based in Boston, MA, that is dedicated to the representation of low income and elderly consumers in the areas of consumer credit, affordable home ownership and access to utilities. As Director of Litigation, Stuart coordinated NCLC’s complex litigation and amicus practice, served as the co-editor of NCLC’s Consumer Class Actions manual, and organized NCLC’s Consumer Class Action Symposium. He is a 1975 graduate of the University of Michigan, summa cum laud, and graduated from Harvard Law School, cum laud, in 1978. 

After 13 years of private trial practice in Boston, Stuart served as Chief of the Trial Division and Chief of the Business and Labor Protection Bureau at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office from 1991-1999. As founding chair of the Boston Bar Association Young Lawyers Section he co-authored and edited a handbook on the rights of the homeless in Massachusetts, which received the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyer’s Division Award of Achievement in 1989.  Stuart is a former Co-Chair of the National Association of Consumer Advocates Board of Directors and a former President of the Volunteer Lawyers Project where he served on the board from 1983-2023.

Since 1992 Stuart has been a member of the adjunct faculty at the Northeastern University School of Law where he teaches courses in Trial Advocacy and was appointed the 2010 Givelber Distinguished Lecturer on Public Interest Law. He also was on the adjunct faculty at the University of Michigan Law School where he taught a course on Consumer Class Actions and Complex Litigation from 2015-2022. 

Stuart and his wife Shelley have lived in Needham, MA since 1979.

As an Access to Justice Fellow Stuart will partner with the WilmerHale Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School (LSC) where he will consult with students and staff on complex case development, litigation strategies, and appellate practice. He primarily will work with the Consumer Law Clinic, but also will be available to collaborate with other clinics at the Center as other litigation-related opportunities and needs arise.