Lesley Fair is a Senior Attorney with the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, where she has represented the FTC in numerous investigations of false advertising and fraud. In addition, she is the primary author of the agency’s Business Blog, named by the ABA Journal as one of the nation’s best law blogs. For her decades in public service, she has received the FTC’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Lesley is the author of FTC Regulation of Advertising in FOOD AND DRUG LAW AND REGULATION (3d ed. 2015) and The FTC & Social Media in SOCIAL MEDIA AND FDA: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE (2010). From 2000 to 2015, Lesley served as Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Consumer Protection Committee. In 2021 she received the ABA Antitrust Law Section’s Distinguished Public Service Award for her role as Co-Chair of the Janet Steiger Fellowship Program, an initiative that has placed almost 500 law students in prestigious summer clerkships with State Attorneys General across the country.

On the faculty of Columbus School of Law of the Catholic University of America since 1984, Lesley holds the title of Distinguished Lecturer. She also teaches at the George Washington University Law School, where she has received the Distinguished Adjunct Faculty Teaching Award. She served as a Visiting Fellow with Georgetown University Law Center’s Appellate Litigation Clinic, where she represented clients before the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. and Fourth Circuits, the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Lesley graduated from the University of Notre Dame and received a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. She clerked for United States District Judge Fred Shannon in the Western District of Texas and served as staff counsel to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth