Frederick Schaffer

Frederick Schaffer has extensive legal experience, currently serving as Chair of the New York City Campaign Finance Board since March 2017. Previously, Schaffer held significant roles including Adjunct Professor at CUNY School of Law and General Counsel & Senior Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs at The City University of New York, where oversight of a 20-lawyer department was a key responsibility. Schaffer was a partner at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, focusing on commercial and securities litigation as well as employment law. Additional positions include Chief Litigating Assistant Corporation Counsel for the New York City Law Department and Counsel to the Mayor during a brief tenure with the New York City Office of the Mayor. Schaffer has also served as a partner at Pollack & Kaminsky and an Associate Professor at Benjamin A. Cardozo School of Law. An attorney at the United States Attorney's Office for five years, Schaffer graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and summa cum laude from Harvard University.