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Justin T. Berger is a principal at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, where he focuses on false claims act litigation, consumer protection, financial elder abuse, employment law, and other complex civil litigation.
Justin received his Bachelor of Arts from Yale University, graduating Cum Laude, with Honors in the Major. He received his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Boalt Hall. At Boalt, Justin was a member of the California Law Review and the LAS-ELC Workers’ Rights Clinic. In addition, through Boalt’s International Human Rights Law Clinic, Justin served on the trial team that successfully prosecuted the case Yean and Bosico v. Dominican Republic before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. ( More information 
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Following law school, Justin clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston of the Northern District of California.
Prior to law school, Justin served for two years as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador, and served as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer at Casa Cornelia Law Center, a non-profit immigration law firm in San Diego. (Click here to read an article about Berger’s work.) Justin is fluent in Spanish.
In 2008, Justin was selected as a finalist for the 2008 Consumer Attorney of the Year Award by the Consumer Attorneys of California, for his work on Komarova v. National Credit Acceptance, along with Anne Marie Murphy, also of Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy. See Komarova v. National Credit Acceptance (2009) 175 Cal.App.4th 324.
In 2009, Justin was selected as a Northern California “Rising Star” by Northern California Super Lawyers and San Francisco Magazine.
Justin is on the Board of Directors of the Northern California Peace Corps Association and the San Mateo County Barristers.
Justin is a member of the San Mateo County Bar Association, Consumer Attorneys of California, American Business Trial Lawyers, and the San Mateo County Trial Lawyers Association.