Gregory W. Fortsch

B.A., History, Departmental Honors, Johns Hopkins; J.D., Seton Hall University School of Law. Professor Fortsch is currently an Assistant Director in the Division of Planning & Information in the Bureau of Consumer Protection (Bureau) at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C. He previously served as counsel to Bureau Director David Vladeck and as a Senior Attorney in the Bureau’s Division of Advertising Practices where he was responsible for monitoring, investigating and prosecuting companies and individuals that manufactured and distributed dietary supplements and were alleged to have violated federal laws prohibiting false and deceptive advertising. Prior to working at the FTC, he clerked for the Honorable Mark B. Epstein of the Superior Court of New Jersey and worked in Washington in private practice at Epstein, Becker & Green and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and at the U.S. Departments of Justice and Veterans Affairs.