Jerry Battle

Senior Attorney

Jeremiah Battle is a senior attorney at the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) specializing in consumer credit and energy issues.

Jeremiah is the author of NCLC’s Credit Discrimination and a contributor to several NCLC treatises, including Consumer Credit Regulation, Collection Actions, Repossessions, and Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices.

Previously, he was a staff attorney with Essex Newark and Northeast New Jersey Legal Services, where he focused on bankruptcy, consumer fraud, predatory mortgage lending, and public benefits cases, and was a recipient of the Legal Services of New Jersey James B. Larsen outstanding attorney award for dedicated and skillful representation of low-income clients. He was also a managing attorney with New Jersey Protection and Advocacy, Inc. (now Disability Rights New Jersey), where he concentrated on disability rights issues.

Education: 

J.D. Rutgers–Newark School of Law

B.A. Rutgers University, with high honors