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 David
K. Jaffe • Professional Resume
David
K. Jaffe's practice covers a wide variety of civil and criminal litigation,
and is founded on a solid base of educational and practical trial experience
over many years.
Since
Mr. Jaffe graduated from law school in 1980, he has concentrated on honing
and expanding his trial skills while devoting his practice primarily to
plaintiff's trial work, primarily civil rights cases (including police
misconduct and employment law), medical malpractice, products liability
and personal injury. Additionally, he has developed an active and successful
criminal law practice.
From
his early days as a law clerk and Assistant Attorney General to becoming
a partner in the Litigation Department of the law firm of Rome, Case,
Kennelly & Klebanoff, to the present, Mr. Jaffe has continued to try
cases and develop advanced advocacy skills, and share those skills with
others. (Click to FIRM CASES.) As such, he
has continually taken evidence and trial advocacy seminars offered by
the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association and American Trial Lawyers Association,
and has shared his knowledge with others through multiple lectures and
seminars in which he has participated. Additionally, Mr. Jaffe is an Adjunct
Professor at the University of Connecticut, where he regularly teaches.
Although
Mr. Jaffe often tries cases, he also believes that not every case should
go to trial. Consequently, he has been very effective throughout the years
in utilizing alternative dispute resolution mechanisms such as arbitration
and mediation to resolve disputes as an alternative to trial, where appropriate.
(Click to Practice Areas -- MISCELLANEOUS).
Mr.
Jaffe has attained success in numerous important areas of the law and
cases, such as his participation over many years in Copper-7 IUD litigation,
where he successfully represented numerous women who were rendered infertile
by Copper-7 IUDs, and in so doing, developed a team of over ten scientific
and medical experts throughout the country, and established independent
scientific testing of the tailstring at the Institute of Material Science
at the University of Connecticut; he has obtained jury verdicts against
municipalities and corporations, as well as insurance companies; he has
been involved in numerous large medical and legal malpractice settlements;
he has extracted settlements from numerous police departments and insurance
companies throughout the state. He has also successfully argued numerous
appeals before the Connecticut Appellate and Supreme Court, and has an
active federal practice, as well.
Indeed,
Attorney Jaffe has always prided himself in zealously taking on cases
and clients in whose causes he believes. In accordance with this philosophy,
and with his fervent belief in civil liberties, Attorney Jaffe is the
former Chairperson of the Executive Committee of the Human Rights and
Opportunities Section of the Connecticut Bar Association, as well as a
member of the West Hartford Commission on Human Rights.
Currently,
Mr. Jaffe is the Treasurer of the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union. He
is also on the Development Council of Camp Courant, the largest non-profit
camp for inner-city children in the country.
Mr.
Jaffe graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,
summa cum laude, and the University of Connecticut School of Law, cum
laude. He was formerly a member of the Board of Selectman in West Hartford,
where he grew up, and has always been active in the local and national
political scene.
Attorney
Jaffe's trademark is that he cares about his clients' causes, and about
his clients as people, and he meticulously and passionately fights to
obtain for them the results they deserve. He has dedicated his career
to fighting for the underdog, and in so doing, has successfully represented
many clients whose cases were both difficult and hotly contested.
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