Mr. John Rao

John Rao is a senior attorney with the National Consumer Law Center, Inc. in Boston, where he focuses on consumer credit, mortgage-servicing and bankruptcy issues. He also has served as a panelist and instructor at numerous bankruptcy and consumer law conferences, has served as an expert witness in court cases, and has testified in Congress on consumer matters. Mr. Rao is a contributing author and editor of NCLC?s Consumer Bankruptcy Law and Practice and a co-author of NCLC?s Mortgage Servicing and Loan Modifications, and Home Foreclosures. He also is a contributing author to Collier on Bankruptcy and the Collier Bankruptcy Practice Guide. Mr. Rao served as a member of the federal Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules from 2006-12, appointed by Chief Justice John Roberts. He also served as a commissioner on ABI?s Commission of Consumer Bankruptcy from 2017- 19. Mr. Rao is a conferee of the National Bankruptcy Conference, a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, a member of the editorial board of Collier on Bankruptcy, a board member of the National Consumer Bankruptcy Rights Center, and a former board member of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys and ABI. In 2017, he received the Excellence in Education Award from the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. Mr. Rao is a graduate of Boston University and received his J.D. from the University of California.

John Rao