Nicholas J. Bontrager was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2007 after receiving his Bachelor’s degree in Law and Society with a Minor in Global Peace and Security from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2004 as well as his Juris Doctor degree in 2007 from the University of La Verne College of Law. He is admitted to practice in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as all District Courts of California, Colorado, Northern Florida, Western Wisconsin, and Northern and Southern Districts of Illinois. He has elected to concentrate his practice in consumer protection throughout his extensive career.
Previous to his current tenure, Nicholas’s vast experience consists of four years as the department head of a major national consumer law firm where he led the firm’s nationwide practice, followed by almost three years of managing the consumer finance department of another renowned consumer law firm. He has been successful in over 5,000 claims to date, where he has been lead counsel in class action lawsuits against national corporations such as the Los Angeles Clippers and T-Mobile. In 2009, he was named the second “Most Active” FDCPA attorney in the United States by Webrecon, LLC, representing well over 300 consumers in federal courts alone. Currently, he has also been recognized for two straight years (2016 & 2017) by Thomson Reuters as a Southern California Rising Star, in the area of Consumer Law. This honor is a recognition bestowed upon only the top 2.5% of Southern California attorneys who are under the age of 40.