Mr. Bruce M. Berman

Bruce M. BermanPartnertel: +1 202 663 6173fax: +1 202 663 6363bruce.berman@wilmerhale.com

Bruce Berman, Esq.As a partner in the Washington, DC firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Bruce Berman has a general litigation practice, with particular emphasis on matters involving standardized educational testing, commercial disputes, and business torts.In 1998, Mr. Berman was appointed to the Federal Practice Task Force of the ABA Section of Litigation.

Mr. Berman serves as principal external counsel for Educational Testing Service.He also has represented pharmaceutical companies in a wide variety of matters.Mr. Berman helped draft the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act.In addition, he has defended clients in consumer class action and contract, construction, employment and defamation litigation.

Mr. Berman is a graduate of Williams College and Yale Law School.

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Bruce M. Berman

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2445 M Street, N.W.Washington, DC 20037

Phone: 202-663-6173Fax: 202-663-6363bberman@wilmer.com

Bruce M. Berman specializes in complex civil litigation, with a particular emphasis on class actions.He has represented employers facing issues relating to the use of testing in the workplace, wrongful termination claims, and whistleblower claims.

Education: Williams College, B.A. 1976; Yale Law School, J.D. 1979.

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Bruce M. Berman

Partner

2445 M Street, N.W.Washington, DC 20037

Phone: 202-663-6173Fax: 202-663-6363bberman@wilmer.com

Bruce M. Berman specializes in complex civil litigation, with a particular emphasis on class actions.He has represented employers facing issues relating to the use of testing in the workplace, wrongful termination claims, and whistleblower claims.

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Bruce Berman has spent his professional career as a litigator at the firm.He is one of the most experienced lawyers in the country in the area of standardized educational testing. He has handled numerous cases involving the use of standardized tests in educational and employment settings, including cases raising questions about the rights of test users to cancel suspicious test scores. Mr. Berman also conducts internal corporate investigations and defends consumer class actions.

Practice

Mr. Berman has long served as principal external counsel for Educational Testing Service, the pre-eminent developer of standardized educational tests. On behalf of ETS and other standardized testing companies, Mr. Berman has handled numerous test security, copyright infringement, bid protest and constitutional lawsuits. Mr. Berman also defends class actions for companies in the consumer products and financial services industries. Another major part of Mr. Berman's practice involves conducting internal corporate investigations of companies alleged to have engaged in accounting, manufacturing and procurement fraud, insider trading and failure to comply with regulatory requirements.

Recent Highlights

Within the last year Mr. Berman has conducted internal corporate investigations, in the United States and Europe, of leading companies in the financial services, food and aviation industries.

In a case that drew national and international attention, Mr. Berman successfully represented pro bono an Alabama prisoner sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. As a result of Mr. Berman's efforts, the convictions on which that sentence was based were overturned, and the prisoner was released from prison after serving nearly 30 years.

Mr. Berman was a principal draftsman of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act, which limited the liability of vaccine manufacturers and increased the likelihood of compensation for people claiming vaccine-related injuries.

Professional Activities

Mr. Berman recently completed a three-year term on the American Bar Association Litigation Section's Federal Practice Task Force.