CHLPI Welcomes New Senior Associate Director and Litigation Manager, Kevin Costello

Kevin Costello is the Senior Associate Director of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation and directs the Center’s litigation efforts.  Prior to coming to CHLPI, Kevin was in private practice for eight years, most recently as a principal at Klein Kavanagh Costello, LLP.  Kevin’s practice involved complex litigation in the fields of housing, health care, civil rights, antitrust and consumer law.  He has been appointed by federal courts across the country to represent classes in Multi-District Litigation, as well as in nationwide class action litigation.  Kevin has brought lawsuits against major banks for broken promises arising from the federal government’s Home Affordable Modification Program, challenged the broadcast blackout restrictions of Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League and fought against the practices of law firms and banks in Massachusetts that improperly foreclosed on financially vulnerable homeowners.  Kevin was also part of the team that litigated a series of cases uncovering systemic racial discrimination in the mortgage lending field.  Prior to entering private practice, Kevin was a staff attorney at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, helping seniors navigate the health care system.  In this role, he fought to ensure that his low-income clients were treated fairly in the roll-out of the Medicare prescription drug benefit and litigated to enforce their rights in various public benefit and health care systems.

Mr. Costello is an honors graduate of both Boston College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.  He served as law clerk to both the Hon. Joseph H. Rodriguez of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and the Hon. Francis X. Spina of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.