Plaintiff-side employment and consumer attorney R. Craig Clark, California State Bar #129219, founded Consumer and Employment Lawyers (formerly Clark Law Group) in 1991 at 3258 Fourth Avenue in Hillcrest, focusing on labor & employment, consumer protection, and bad faith insurance litigation. Wage-and-hour class actions, unpaid overtime claims under the FLSA and California Labor Code, and PAGA representative actions form the core caseload, with employee-side referrals frequently coming from the wrongful-termination practice Kennard Law, P.C. handles down the block. Clark earned his J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1986 and built his plaintiff-side practice after a stint at one of San Diego's largest defense-side firms gave him a working knowledge of how corporate counsel structures wage and benefit policies. The firm specifically targets large corporate defendants in cases where individual recovery would be uneconomical without aggregation, an aggregation model the consumer class action practice at The Law Office of Jack Fitzgerald, PC also runs. Consumer protection work covers UCL §17200 unfair competition claims, CLRA violations, and false advertising, alongside bad-faith first-party insurance litigation against carriers denying valid claims. The most complex matters are multi-state wage-and-hour class actions involving misclassified independent contractors, where certification motions and damages modeling require coordinated expert work across thousands of putative class members.