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Attorney Ronald Wilcox has more than 10 years of experience
helping people who are drowning in debt. He is a member in good standing of the bars of
the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California and U.S.
District Court, Eastern District of California
Background and Qualifications
Ron Wilcox holds bachelors’ and masters’ degrees from New York
University, a graduate certificate in management from Harvard
University, and a Juris Doctorate from Indiana University. He
served as Managing Editor of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal
Studies. Ron has also engaged in continuing studies at Stanford University.
Ron has more than 10 years of experience in the legal
profession, either working for legal clinics, law firms,
in-house counsel, interning for a U.S. Magistrate Judge, or
private practice, and has been a licensed attorney in California
since 1995. Ron is admitted to practice in the State of
California, and before Northern and Eastern District U.S.
Federal Courts.
During his tenure as a consumer attorney he has published
articles in the San Francisco and Los Angeles Daily Law
Journals, the California Bankruptcy Reporter, and has been
interviewed, and quoted, by the Wall Street Journal and the San
Jose Mercury News. Ron has assisted numerous consumers in both
chapter 7 and chapter 13 bankruptcies, and in Fair Debt
Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) matters. Ron has represented
consumers in courts in San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland,
Sacramento, Modesto, and Fresno, and has assisted numerous
consumers in regard to their rights under federal and state law,
including FDCPA litigation. He has assisted approximately two
thousand clients in bankruptcy matters, and more than two
hundred clients in FDCPA matters.
Ron Wilcox has qualified to be a panel member of the Santa Clara
County Bar’s Bankruptcy and Insolvency section. Currently, he
serves as Chairman of the San Jose Division-Chapter 13
Subcommittee, directing monthly meetings to help local
attorney’s stay abreast of current issues in consumer bankruptcy
law and consumer issues in regard to debtor and creditor issues.
Ron has attended Continuing Legal Education classes regarding
consumer law in Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose,
New York, Chicago, Kansas City, Atlanta, Albuquerque,
Minneapolis, and Boston; including the National Consumer Law
Center’s Annual Conferences in Atlanta, GA and Oakland, CA, and
Boston, MA, the National Association of Chapter 13 Trustee’s
Annual Convention in New York, and the National Association of
Bankruptcy Attorney’s Annual Conventions in Las Vegas, NV, San
Francisco, CA, and San Diego, CA. He has donated his time to the
Alexander Community Law Center, directing law student interns
who assist consumers on financial and legal matters.
Ron has been co-counsel in several consumer class actions under
the FDCPA; a number which are pending, and two which have been
certified by the Northern District of California.
Decisions include:
Davilla v. Thinline, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18163 (N.D. Cal.
2005)
Bracken v. Harris & Zide, L.L.P., 219 F.R.D. 481 (N.D.
Cal. 2004).
Cohen v. Murphey, Calloway, et al., 222 F.R.D. 416 (N.D. Cal.
2004).
Palmer v. Stassinos, 348 F. Supp. 2d 1070 (N.D. Cal. 2004).
Abels et al v. JBC Legal Group, P.C. et al, 227 F.R.D. 541 (N.D.
Cal. 2005).
Abels et al v. JBC Legal Group, P.C. et al, 2005 U.S. Dist.
LEXIS 12333 (N.D. Cal. 2005).
Uyeda v. J.A. Cambece Law Office, P.C., J.A. Cambece and CACV of
Colorado, LLC, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9271 (N.D. Cal. 2005).
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