Background
Jeanne Finegan writes the risk management
brand equity and product recall column for IRMI.com, and is Senior Vice
President of The Garden City Group, Inc. (GCG), with oversight responsibility
for GCG Communications, a division of GCG. She has more than 20 years of
communications and advertising experience and is a nationally recognized expert
in class action, bankruptcy and mass tort notification campaigns.
Ms. Finegan has provided testimony before Congress on issues of notice and
has provided expert testimony in both state and federal courts regarding
notification campaigns and conducted media audits of proposed notice programs
for their adequacy under Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(c)(2) and similar state class
action statutes. Most recently, she has been recognized by Canadian courts as a
legal notice expert.
Ms. Finegan has designed and implemented many of the nation’s largest and
most high profile legal notice communication and advertising programs. She has
designed communications programs for a wide range of class actions and consumer
matters that include product liability, construction defect, antitrust,
medical/pharmaceutical, human rights, civil rights, telecommunication, media,
environment, securities, banking, insurance, mass tort, restructuring, and
product recall.
Prior to working as a public relations and crisis communication specialist,
Ms. Finegan worked as a news reporter and public affairs director. Her
professional background includes work as a broadcast reporter, anchor, and
public affairs director for major market radio and television stations.