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Donald Paul Fitzgerald, III

Donald Paul Fitzgerald, III is an attorney in Miami, Florida who represents consumers against monied and corporate interests. He is admitted to the state bars of Florida and Georgia, and has been a lawyer for 20 years. Prior to attending law school he served in the US Navy as a surface warfare officer. He graduated from Massachusetts Maritime Academy and the University of Florida College of Law. Mr. Fitzgerald had previously represented banks, credit card companies, and other lenders in credit and collections matters. He was formerly corporate counsel for a major purchaser of defaulted consumer debt and a consumer collection agency. He was also a partner in a debt buying and asset management operation, ran a collections law firm, and owned a student loan servicing company.

In 2011 Mr. Fitzgerald made a major personal and career decision to re-orient his career toward helping individuals who were suffering because of what he sees as institutionalized financial business practices and models that are inherently exploitative. unfair, and inhumane to ordinary people. Coming from a modest but comfortable background and having experienced both success and failure in his career, he recognized the gross social indifference towards regular people that has grown from a preoccupation with capitalism and market theory as more than an economic model, but also as a social model. Mr. Fitzgerald believes that this love of financial markets is overwhelming our social structure and coarsening our humanity. Seeing a million families traumatized every year by being evicted from their homes, Mr. Fitzgerald elected to "switch sides" and promote human justice, compassion, and forgiveness through the application of his legal skills to help such people as he can through the American courts.

Today Mr. Fitzgerald's practice focusses on aiding people who are being harassed by collection agencies and creditors, who have problems with their credit reports, and who face foreclosure.