EXPERT ADVISORY

New York, NY (Nov 27, 2002) – Personal finance and credit security are crucial topics at the moment, following the recent discovery of the national three-year-old identity theft ring that has stolen the identities and destroyed the credit of over 30,000 people. New York Law School Professor Karen Gross, a legal expert in personal finance and founder of the Coalition for Consumer Bankruptcy Debtor Education, has given media commentary on the case and is available for further advisement on how to protect one's credit and avoid being scammed.

Professor Gross, whose current course list at the Law School includes Bankruptcy Policy and Consumer Finance & Collection, has testified on several occasions before the National Bankruptcy Review Commission and Congress on bankruptcy issues. She has also spoken publicly about and authored books on bankruptcy, repairing credit reports and credit scores, realizing the true cost of minimum payments and compounding interest, protecting consumer privacy, and understanding legal rights when it comes to debt collection.

Most recently, she authored Failure and Forgiveness: Rebalancing the Bankruptcy System (Yale University Press, 1997), which won the Association of American Publishers 1997 Business Management Award and has been released in paperback, and Ladies in Red: Learning from America's First Female Bankrupts (with Newman and Campbell).

Professor Gross can be reached at (212) 431-2154 or e-mail: kgross@nyls.edu. Contact the Office of Public Affairs at (212) 431-2872 or e-mail: publicaffairs@nyls.edu if you have any questions or are unable to reach her directly.

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