| Biography | Jeff is a Litigation Member in the firm's Boston office, specializing in complex civil litigation, including litigation involving allegations of fraud, First Amendment issues and claims of defamation. Jeff has twice served as United States Delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland, having been first appointed to that position by President Clinton in March 1999 and then reappointed in March 2000. In 1997, Jeff was appointed Deputy Chief Counsel for the Minority of the United States Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Special Investigation into campaign fundraising practices, in which capacity he represented the Democratic Senators in connection with the full Committee's investigation into fundraising during the 1996 Presidential election. He also served as Chief Counsel for the Minority of the United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, representing the Ranking Member and the Democratic Senators in connection with the Subcommittee's investigations into areas that included Medicare fraud and governmental waste and abuse. Between 1987 and 1990, Jeff served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts, focusing on civil fraud investigations and litigation against governmental contractors, physicians and pharmacies. In 1989, he was appointed as the first Chief of the Asset Forfeiture Division of the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts, in which capacity he oversaw investigations and asset forfeiture cases involving narcotics and money laundering rings. He received commendations from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the General Services Administration, and in 1990 received the United States Department of Justice's Special Achievement Award for sustained and superior performance of duty. Jeff has served as lead litigation and trial counsel in a number of highly publicized cases, representing a major pharmaceutical company in its successful case against a former Chief Executive Officer, representing a Massachusetts racing company in its successful case against a former co-venturer, and representing a series of non-profit organizations and private citizens in their successful defense of a major defamation case brought against them by the Islamic Society of Boston. He has represented a number of parties in connection with Congressional investigations, and has been appointed as Special Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, representing the former Secretary of State of the Commonwealth in connection with Congressional redistricting and public records litigation. Jeff was named to the Massachusetts Super Lawyers list in 2011. Between 2001 and 2004, Jeff was President of the World Affairs Council of Boston, later WorldBoston. He has published op-eds on a range of foreign policy and other issues in the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald, and has served on the boards of directors of several Boston-area non-profits. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Brown University (1978), and graduated cum laude from the Boston University School of Law (1982). |