Abigail Caplovitz Field

Abigail Caplovitz Field is a writer and attorney who helped break the foreclosure fraud scandal while at AOL's DailyFinance. She freelances, writes the blog Reality Check at AbigailCField.com, and assists other attorneys. Prior to taking up journalism, she was the legislative advocate for the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group where she focused on identity theft, prescription drugs, campaign finance reform, rent-to-own regulation, toxic pollution and the privatization of public infrastructure. She was a significant contributor to the successful effort to stop the securitization of New Jersey's toll revenue under then-Governor Jon Corzine.

Prior to joining NJPIRG, she was a junior associate at Chadbourne & Parke LLP. While there she published a law review article on limiting police discretion in "quality of life" enforcement through careful statute drafting. She also wrote a satirical piece called "Cover Your Assets" for the Billionaires for Bush guide to running the world for fun and profit, and was an editor of 13 Myths About War in Iraq.

Abigail went to Chadbourne after graduating NYU Law with honors and awards in 2001. While at NYU Law, she coauthored a couple of publications on racial profiling and policing and edited a journal on housing law as it related to public housing authorities.

Her background before law school is very diverse. She graduated UConn with honors in 1992 with a B.S. in Geology and worked as an environmental consultant for a couple of years. She quit, traveled a fair amount, and worked jobs like being a receptionist, teacher's aide, bartender (really, she only poured beer and shots; it was a biker bar), and a math and chemistry tutor. Eventually she started pursuing an urban planning masters before switching to law school.