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Brent Landau

Brent Landau

Adjunct Professor of Law

Brent Landau is the Executive Director of the Public Interest Law Center.

He was previously the Global Managing Partner of Hausfeld, a global law firm that represents plaintiffs in antitrust and other complex disputes. He was responsible for overseeing the firm’s operations, including ethical compliance and risk management.

Landau’s clients have included large and small businesses seeking compensation for price-fixing, monopolization, and other wrongdoing. With experience representing clients in health care, transportation, and other industries, he has obtained significant recoveries in courts throughout the United States.

Landau also maintains an active pro bono practice, and serves as counsel to claimants in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Independent Reconciliation and Reparations Program and similar programs throughout Pennsylvania. 

Named a “Titan of the Plaintiffs’ Bar” by Law360, Landau also has been recognized by Lawdragon as one of the 500 leading lawyers in America, by the National Law Journal as an “Antitrust Trailblazer and Pioneer,” and by The Legal Intelligencer as a “Distinguished Leader.” 

Landau graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was a Supervising Editor of the Harvard Journal on Legislation, Co-Chairperson of the Tenant Advocacy Project, and a Teaching Fellow.

Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Bruce W. Kauffman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.