Greg Beck

Greg Beck is a staff attorney at Public Citizen Litigation Group, where he litigates issues of free speech, intellectual property, open government, and consumer law. Mr. Beck joined the litigation group in 2005 as an Equal Justice Works fellow. His fellowship project focused on defending consumers on the Internet from actual or threatened lawsuits for communicating their opinions online.

Mr. Beck received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University in 1997, graduating summa cum laude. During the next several years, he worked as a software developer and became interested in issues of digital rights. In 2004, Mr. Beck earned his law degree summa cum laude from the University of Illinois College of Law, where he served as Articles Editor of the University of Illinois Law Review and received the Outstanding Clinical Student award for his work in the college's Civil Litigation Clinic. During law school, Mr. Beck completed internships for a legal aid clinic and for a federal district court judge. He also spent a summer as a law clerk at Public Citizen Litigation Group, where he worked on issues of First Amendment and consumer law. From 2004-2005, Mr. Beck clerked for the Honorable Michael R. Murphy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Mr. Beck is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Illinois Bar.