David Siffert - Legal Director

David Siffert is the Legal Director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.).  Siffert also works at NYU School of Law as the Executive Director of the State Government Initiative, the Director of Research & Projects at the Center on Civil Justice, and an Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law.  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 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).