Elliot Gardner represents consumers in both individual cases and class actions involving violations of state and federal consumer-protection laws, including the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act and the New Jersey Truth in Consumer Contract, Warranty, and Notice Act.  His practice involves automobile fraud, home improvement contracts, door-to-door sales, predatory loans, and many other types of consumer transactions, as well as wrongful debt collections and repossessions.

Mr. Gardner graduated from Columbia University (B.A., 2001, Honors in English) and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (J.D., 2004, magna cum laude), where he served as Book Note Editor of the Cardozo Law Review and represented wrongfully-convicted prisoners at the Innocence Project.  Following law school, Mr. Gardner served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Thomas R. Phillips and Justice David M. Medina of the Supreme Court of Texas.

Before joining Galex Wolf in August 2009, Mr. Gardner was an associate at Dechert LLP in Princeton, New Jersey, where he represented large defendants in complex mass-tort, consumer-protection, and class-action litigation, specializing in appellate issues.  Mr. Gardner also handled a wide array of civil-rights cases on a pro bono basis.

Mr. Gardner is admitted to practice in New York (2005) and New Jersey (2006).  He is a member of the National Association of Consumer Advocates.