Robert J. Giuffra, Jr.
Robert J. Giuffra, Jr. is a partner in Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Litigation Group. He is the coordinator of Sullivan & Cromwell's Securities Litigation Practice, the Co-Head of Business Development and a member of the Firm's Management Committee. He is President-Elect of the Federal Bar Council. In 1998, Governor Pataki appointed Mr. Giuffra to serve as one of the five Commissioners of the New York State Ethics Commission, the predecessor agency of the Public Integrity Commission, and he served on the Ethics Commission until 2007. From 1995 to 1996, Mr. Giuffra was Chief Counsel of the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. From 1991 to 1992, while at Sullivan & Cromwell, he served as a Special Assistant District Attorney in New York County.
Mr. Giuffra clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist of the United States Supreme Court and Judge Ralph K. Winter, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
A resident of New York City, Mr. Giuffra received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where he graduated summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his law degree from Yale Law School, where he was an Articles Editor for the Yale Law Journal.