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Chantel Greene’s practice focuses on product liability and safety issues arising out of consumer and occupational exposures.

Chantel counsels clients on product disputes, risk mitigation, and crisis management matters. She also advises clients on regulatory and enforcement issues before the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), including compliance with product safety regulations and standards, reporting obligations, product recalls, and CPSC investigations and penalties. In this arena, her clients include distributors, manufacturers, brick-and-mortar retailers, online retailers, and online marketplaces.

Chantel also serves on the National Coordinating Counsel team for a Fortune 500 chemical company in connection with the company’s premises liability and product liability litigation. In this role, Chantel assists in managing a nationwide docket by working with local counsel to develop defense themes, preparing expert witnesses for deposition and trial, and providing strategic advice on individual cases. She has deep experience with every stage of litigation, from pre-suit investigations, through discovery, to trial.

Prior to joining Crowell & Moring, Chantel worked for Florida’s largest full-service civil litigation firm. Her practice encompassed commercial litigation, professional malpractice, products liability, and regulatory investigations and examinations.

In 2023, Chantel was named one of the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America in the areas of Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions and Personal Injury Litigation.

Chantel is an active mentor through Crowell & Moring’s partnership with the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity. She also mentors through College Bound, a Washington, D.C. non-profit organization that pairs mentors with Washington, D.C. students in grades 8-12 to help prepare them for college.

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After months of anticipation, the Senate has received a nomination for a Commissioner of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). 

In May 2025, President Trump removed the three Democratic Commissioners, leaving the two Republican Commissioners, Dziak and Feldman. Then, on August 22, 2025, Commissioner Dziak announced his resignation, leaving Acting Chairman Feldman as the sole Commissioner.

On October 2, 2025, President Trump nominated William “Billy” Hewes, III to join Acting Chairman Feldman as a Commissioner of the CPSC.Continue Reading CPSC Commissioner Nominated

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued its Lapse Plan in advance of the federal government shutdown. The CPSC will furlough 35% of full-time employees, with the overwhelming majority of those retained focused on “protect[ing] life and property.” Under the Lapse Plan, consumer-oriented programs and, notably, civil penalties, will pause for the duration of…

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In May 2025, the Trump Administration, asserting Executive authority, terminated the three Democratic Commissioners of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. On June 13, 2025, a Maryland district court aborted the without-cause termination while a legal challenge proceeds, leaving the Commissioners in place. No longer.Continue Reading Commission in Limbo: SCOTUS Decision Puts CPSC Democrats Back Out of Action

On February 11, 2025, President Trump nominated Jonathan Morrison to be Administrator of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Notably, this will not be Morrison’s first stint at NHTSA as he served as Chief Counsel at NHTSA during the first Trump Administration.

Morrison has a long history of automotive-focused work. Before his first tenure at NHTSA, he was President of Auto Advisory Services, Inc. and head of legal and regulatory affairs for the California New Car Dealers Association (CNCDA). Auto Advisory Services, Inc. is described on Morrison’s LinkedIn as an association providing assistance to a network of “over 500 California dealerships, including many of the largest dealer groups in the country.” His LinkedIn further indicates he “held primary responsibility over CNCDA’s legal compliance operations, developing guidance for dealers in response to new or amended statutes, regulations, court opinions, or law enforcement activity” while also working to create “legislative and regulatory policy proposals to benefit the new car industry, and defeating or narrowing proposals that would be harmful to the industry.”Continue Reading NHTSA Administrator Nominee