Julie G. Bush

Prior to joining Crowell & Moring, Julie practiced in consumer protection and civil rights. For the United States Commission on Civil Rights, she researched and edited formal reports on complex and emerging civil rights and policy issues. With the Consumer Protection Bureau of the Federal Trade Commission, Julie investigated and litigated unfair and deceptive trade practices including deceptive, auto-renewing internet payday loans; misleading marketing of non-traditional mortgages; and phony pop-up scares designed to sell consumers unnecessary software. She also convened roundtable discussions among diverse stakeholders on debt collection, leading to findings and policy recommendations to improve the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Julie started her career as an Equal Justice Works Fellow combatting predatory lending for a legal services agency. Through this work, she gained experience in discovery, electronically stored information, and information management.

Julie’s pro bono practice includes serving homeless and housing-compromised clients of the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless and facilitating name and gender change issues for clients of Whitman-Walker Legal Services in the District of Columbia and Maryland.