Biography

Greg Everts is a partner at Quarles & Brady LLP where his practice focuses on commercial and regulatory litigation, including consumer class actions. Previously, he was a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Consumer Protection Branch (formerly, Office of Consumer Litigation); Special Counsel to the President’s Crime Prevention Council; and Associate Counsel in the Office of the U.S. Vice President. Greg has a B.A. in journalism and political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.P.A. from Princeton University, and a J.D. from the University of Michigan, where he was a Book Review Editor of the Michigan Law Review. He was a member of Wisconsin’s Criminal Penalties Study Committee and president of the Western District of Wisconsin Bar Association. He received a Seventh Circuit Bar Association Pro Bono Award for representing two prisoners in a lawsuit that successfully challenged conditions of solitary confinement at the Waupun Correctional Institution. Currently, he is co-counsel with the ACLU on a class action challenging Wisconsin’s parole system for individuals sentenced to life in prison for crimes they committed as juveniles.