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Arthur Bryant is the former Chairman and Executive Director of Public Justice, a national public interest law firm supported by and working with over 2,700 of the country’s top plaintiffs’ lawyers on cutting-edge, impact litigation. He has spent over four decades winning major victories and establishing precedents in civil rights, constitutional law, consumer protection, toxic torts, workers’ rights, class actions, mass torts, and access to justice for all.

The National Law Journal has twice named Arthur one of the “100 Most Influential Attorneys in America.” In November 2021, it honored him as a “Sports Law Trailblazer” for his success enforcing Title IX, advancing gender equity, and fighting sex discrimination in intercollegiate athletic programs nationwide. As part of that work, Arthur has successfully represented more women (and men) in Title IX litigation than any lawyer in the country.

Arthur uses litigation to right wrongs. After two years as a lawyer, he brought and tried the precedent-setting class action that forced the admission of women to Philadelphia's previously all-male Central High School. Four years later, he was the lead trial counsel in the country’s first Title IX class action against a school for discriminating against its female athletes, Haffer v. Temple University.

In 1984, Arthur left private practice, took a 50% pay cut, and joined Public Justice (then Trial Lawyers for Public Justice) as its sole staff attorney. He became Executive Director in 1987 and was named Chairman in 2014, his 30th anniversary with the organization. In 2019, his 35th anniversary, he became Chairman Emeritus and returned to private practice. 

When Arthur became Executive Director, the organization had two staff (Arthur and the receptionist), a small office in Washington DC, fewer than 25 annual members, a $275,000 budget, and very few cases on its docket. When he became Chairman Emeritus, it had 43 staff (including 23 attorneys), offices on both coasts, over 2,700 members, an $8 million annual budget, and a broader range of high-impact, precedent-setting cases than any public interest organization in the country. 

Under Arthur’s direction, Public Justice used litigation and public education to make new law and win justice for millions. Its Access to Justice Campaign made Public Justice the national leader in the courts against corporate and governmental efforts to expand mandatory arbitration, federal preemption, class action bans and abuses, unjustified secrecy, and other barriers to Americans’ constitutional right to a jury trial and a day in court. 

After returning to private practice, Arthur continued to fight for the public interest, at both Bailey Glasser, LLP, and the Clarkson Law Firm. In a case with huge national implications, he successfully represented 93 plaintiffs’ law firms and 167 trial lawyers as amici curiae to help challenge and stop a proposed class action settlement of future Roundup claims – including claims by people who have no injury or cancer now and may not have any for decades. He also helped defeat Meta’s attempt to use Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to avoid liability for its role in creating and running scam investment ads in Australia that are cheating people out of their life’s savings. 

Fighting sex discrimination, Arthur and his co-counsel won Title IX settlements preserving women’s intercollegiate athletic opportunities and advancing gender equity at Brown University, the College of William & Mary, Dartmouth College, Dickinson College, East Carolina University, Florida State University, La Salle University, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and the University of St. Thomas. In April 2021, he and his co-counsel made legal history when Clemson University became the first school to face sex discrimination lawsuits from both its male and female student-athletes for violations of Title IX. The settlement with Clemson was the nation’s first Title IX victory for men – and helped ensure equal athletic financial aid and treatment for women at the university, too. 

Arthur and his co-counsel are now prosecuting the first Title IX cases in the country seeking damages against schools for depriving women athletes of equal athletic financial aid and equal treatment, including in regard to NIL: name, image, and likeness. And, as co-counsel with MoloLamken LLP, he is challenging the proposed class action antitrust settlement in House v. NCAA, which would pay over $2.5 billion to college athletes, with less than 10% going to women, and eliminate roster spots for tens of thousands of college athletes nationwide. 

Arthur is recognized in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, and Who’s Who in the World. He has been elected to the American Law Institute and honored by, among others, the American Association for Justice, the American Bar Association, Harvard Law School, Mass Torts Made Perfect, the Consumer Attorneys Associations of Los Angeles and San Diego, the Iowa Association for Justice, the New Jersey Association for Justice, the Pennsylvania Association for Justice, the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, the Southern Trial Lawyers Association, and the Western Trial Lawyers Association. His portrait hangs in the Trial Lawyer National Portrait Gallery.

The Oregon Trial Lawyers Association has named its public service award the Arthur H. Bryant Public Justice Award.

Now, Arthur is bringing his expertise, strategic vision, and dedication to justice to Arthur Bryant Law, P.C. He remains committed to taking on cases that will make a difference.