Michael Jaffe is an adjunct professor at CUNY, where he teaches Lawyering Seminar courses. He also taught Mortgage Law for many years at CUNY.
Mr. Jaffe has practiced law for many years. He has litigated numerous cases at both the trial and appellate level in both state and federal courts, including a recent successful antitrust case in the United States Supreme Court (Apple v. Pepper, 139 S. Ct. 1514 ( 2019)). He is currently of counsel in Giskan Solotaroff & Anderson LLP, a Manhattan firm that specializes in representing victims of civil rights violations, consumer fraud and employment discrimination. Prior to that, he was a partner in the firm Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP, a Manhattan-based firm, where he specialized in litigating disputes against corporations for securities fraud, violations of antitrust laws, consumer fraud, and improper denial of employee benefits. In addition, Mr. Jaffe has taken on numerous pro bono matters in his career, including political asylum cases with the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, and he has worked in the New York public schools as a volunteer mentor.
Mr. Jaffe is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied Political Science and Philosophy. Following graduation, he was awarded a President’s Undergraduate Fellowship to conduct research in France on the subject of antisemitism. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of Law.