LeadershipOur team comes from varied legal and business backgrounds, but shares a commitment to neutral rules of law as the best safeguard for a pluralistic constitutional democracy. We focus on defending procedural integrity and substantive limits on government overreach, ensuring that no politically expedient agenda erodes the checks and balances enshrined in our founding framework.
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Erik Jaffe is an appellate litigator with over 30 years of experience. He has been involved in appeals on a broad range of legal issues, including cases raising the First Amendment, the Commerce Clause, the Equal Protection Clause, the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause, the Second Amendment, and a wide variety of cases involving patents, copyrights, ERISA, securities fraud, federal preemption, environmental regulation, and other state and federal constitutional and statutory matters. He has represented businesses and non-profit groups, Judges, Senators, former government officials, Nobel Prize winners, and a broad cross-section of private individuals. Mr. Jaffe has been involved in over 200 Supreme Court matters and numerous cases in the federal courts of appeals.
Mr. Jaffe was a law clerk to Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1990 to 1991 and to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from 1996 to 1997. He has practiced law at a large law firm, as a solo practitioner, and at a small litigation boutique. He earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Columbia School of Law. |
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Leonard A. Gail is the Founding and Managing Partner of Massey & Gail LLP—a litigation boutique that tries cases across the country. He has nearly four decades of experience in civil and criminal matters involving a wide range of trial, litigation, and counseling services. He has practiced law as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, at a large national law firm, as a Deputy General Counsel and Senior Vice President at a large bank, and at a cutting edge litigation boutique.
He has taken to trial or argued on appeal dozens of sizeable matters covering a variety of substantive legal areas. Representative cases have involved antitrust, banking, bankruptcy, constitutional, contract, employment, environmental, ERISA, fraud, labor, patent, product liability, professional malpractice, real estate, regulatory, securities, and technology issues. He earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. |
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Mark Koulogeorge is an investor and entrepreneur with extensive experience advising, managing, and providing venture capital to technology companies and other businesses.
He has worked at a large national consulting firm, a diversified manufacturing company, and has directed and managed five venture capital funds. Mark has served on the boards of directors of more than 30 technology companies, which have generated over $1 billion in gains for his investors. He earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. |