Erik Jaffe is a partner at Schaerr Jaffe LLP. He has been involved in appeals on a broad range of legal issues, including First Amendment challenges to campaign finance reform, Commerce Clause challenges to health care reform and other federal legislation, Equal Protection Clause challenges to affirmative action in education, First Amendment challenges to school vouchers, Fifth Amendment challenges to takings of property, Second Amendment challenges to restrictions on gun ownership, 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.
Jaffe has been involved in over 100 Supreme Court matters, including filing 30 cert petitions, representing half a dozen parties on the merits, and filing over 60 amicus briefs at both the cert and merits stages. He graduated from Columbia University School of Law and clerked for Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Following his clerkship, Jaffe spent five years in litigation practice with Williams & Connolly before leaving to clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
