Name Jeffrey Krinsk | ||
Jeffrey Robert Krinsk (born November 22, 1948) is an attorney, investor, and business advisor who is the co-founder of the national plaintiffs’ class action litigation law firm Finkelstein & Krinsk, LLP.
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Early life and education
Jeffrey Robert Krinsk was born November 22, 1948. His father, Keith Arnold Krinsk, was president of Holland House, a division of the National Distillers Chemical Corporation.
Krinsk earned a B.A with honors (political science) from Hobart and William Smith College. He then earned a J.D. from Boston University Law School in 1974.
Career
Krinsk’s legal career began as a litigator for a New York firm following his graduation from Boston University Law School and New York Bar admission (1st Dept.) in 1975. He then worked in the City as a specialist assigned to major construction lawsuits arising from contracting with the United States government. His cases were often adverse to the Army Corp of Engineers, and a string of successful outcomes led to broader travel within the US and abroad, including introduction of the native Bostonian to the California lifestyle.
The attraction did not diminish and, in 1978, Krinsk moved to San Diego, California as staff attorney for Hang Ten International, Inc., an apparel licensing organization owning a “two feet” logo and Hang Ten trademark that epitomized the active California lifestyle. These trademarks were internationally licensed on apparel and consumer goods in over 72 countries. Krinsk became General Counsel and then Vice President and Chief Legal Officer. By 1981, he was the company’s Chief Operating Officer, overseeing a worldwide legal network including 56 law firms addressing trademark, licensing and operational issues.
In 1983, Krinsk moved to Los Angeles, California, joining apparel manufacturer Guess? Inc. as its President, responsible for licensing and a broad array of other business matters for the then-emerging company. Krinsk returned to San Diego in 1985 as Chairman and CEO of a publicly traded corporation (Fabulous Inns of America) marshaling its assets and enhancing its business platform to achieve exponential growth and attractive ROI for the public shareholders.
Following the negotiated acquisition of the public corporation, Krinsk maintained an active law practice before co-founding Finkelstein & Krinsk, LLP. Working exclusively on plaintiffs’ behalf in class action lawsuits, his cases run a broad gambit including In re Great American Securities Litigation, (a class action for violations of the securities laws) and Hurst v. Monarch Equities Corporation, (a class action for violations of the Commodities and Exchange Act), and In re State Farm Repair Practices (a class action against State Farm that ended the practice in California of using non-OEM car parts). Most recently, Krinsk ended a pharmacy chains’ practice of using confidential prescription information for sending customers marketing communications disguised as “re-fill reminders or similar”. He currently pursues lawsuits relating to privacy including ending the practice of collecting customer prescription information to assemble doctor (i.e. prescriber profiles) to, inter alia, influence the drugs doctors prescribe.
Krinsk serves as Senior General Partner of Rosemont Realty LLC, a subsidiary of Rosemont Capital, LLC which maintains a controlling interest in BGK Group, a fully integrated commercial property and asset management firm. http://www.rosemontrealty.com/
Krinsk is active in Democratic politics and, with his wife Marcy, has made their San Diego home a well known venue for political functions and civic events. He served as a National Finance Chair for John Kerry for President 2004 and Co-Chair of the Patriot Project in 2005. Krinsk is also a member of the Democratic National Committee, the Speaker’s Cabinet of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC). He was a founding member of the 2009 Inaugural Committee. Krinsk also serves on certain California governmental committees at the requet of Governor Jerry Brown's administration.
Krinsk continues his philanthropic involvement in a number of causes from the African Wildlife Foundation to education at the University of San Diego School of Law. The Jeffrey and Marcy Krinsk Research Advancement Initiative (KRAI) serves Scripps Institution of Oceanography and supports the research of young scientists http://supportscripps.ucsd.edu/where/research. Jeffrey and Marcy were awarded 2012 Scientists' Recognition Award for their work with Scripps and co-sponsored Scripp's 2011 Extreme Climate Conference http://sio.ucsd.edu/extreme_climate/. Krinsk also serves on the University of California San Diego Foundation Board of Trustess http://ucsdfoundation.ucsd.edu/board_of_trustees.asp . He is a Distinguished Alumni of Boston University Law School and a member of several boards including the Medicare Rights Center and the American Security Project Advisory Board. Krinsk serves on the Board of Trustees of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment http://www.heinzcenter.org/Trustees.html The H. John Heinz III Center For Science, Economics And The Environment
Marriage and children
Krinsk married his wife, Marcy Campbell in 2001. The Krinsks reside in San Diego, California.