Jeanne C. Finegan, APR
Senior Vice President, Communications

Jeanne C. Finegan is Senior Vice President, Communications at GCG and has more than 20 years of communications and advertising experience. She has designed legal notice programs for a wide range of class actions and consumer matters that include product liability, asbestos, construction defect, antitrust, medical/pharmaceutical, human rights, civil rights, telecommunication, media, environment, securities, banking, insurance, mass tort, restructuring and product recall.

Ms. Finegan is accredited (APR) in Public Relations by the Universal Accreditation Board, a program administered by the Public Relations Society of America. She has provided expert testimony before Congress on issues of notice. Additionally, she has provided expert testimony in both State and Federal Courts regarding notification campaigns and conducted media audits of proposed notice programs for their adequacy under Fed R. Civ. P. 23(c)(2) and similar state class action statutes. Ms. Finegan has lectured, published and has been cited extensively on various aspects of legal noticing, product recall and crisis communications and has served the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) as an expert to determine ways in which the Commission can increase the effectiveness of its product recall campaigns. Ms. Finegan is a frequent speaker at Practising Law Institute (PLI) Conferences across the country.

Prior to joining GCG, Ms. Finegan established Capabiliti L.L.C. and co-founded Huntington Advertising, a nationally recognized leader in legal notice communications. Prior to that, Ms. Finegan spearheaded Huntington Communications, an Internet development company, and The Huntington Group, Inc., a public relations firm. Additionally, Ms. Finegan has experience in news and public affairs. Her professional background includes being a reporter, anchor and public affairs director for a well-known radio station in Portland, Oregon, as well as a reporter covering state government for a Salem, Oregon radio station. Ms. Finegan also worked as a television program/promotion manager at two west coast television stations.

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