David Gossett, now the Assistant General Counsel for Litigation at the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, served as an associate and then a partner in the Washington, DC office of Mayer Brown from 2000 to 2011. At Mayer Brown, David focused his practice on US Supreme Court and appellate litigation, with particular emphasis on administrative law, ERISA, class actions, federal preemption, and arbitration. David graduated with high honors, Order of the Coif, from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. He received an M.A. in experimental psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and his B.A. from Reed College. He clerked for the Honorable Diane P. Wood on the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and is one of the founders—and the Executive Editor—of the Green Bag, a quarterly law journal.