David Siffert - Legal Director

David Siffert is the Legal Director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.).  Siffert is also the Director of Research & Projects at the Center on Civil Justice at NYU School of Law and an Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law at NYU.  Prior to joining S.T.O.P., Siffert was a civil litigator at Boies, Schiller & Flexner and a tax attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  

Siffert also serves as Vice President and Board Member of the non-profit Friends of Marcy Houses and as a member of the New York County Democratic Committee.

Siffert clerked for Hon. Robert S. Smith, Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, and Hon. Barbara S. Jones, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York and is an alumnus of New York University School of Law ('09) and the University of Chicago (AB '06).