Dr. Jeffrey Chivers

Biography

Jeffrey W. Chivers is a Joseph Goldstein Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School, and he specializes in commercial litigation. He is also a managing partner at Chivers LLP, a New York law firm. Chivers has a solid background in litigation, having practiced at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP from 2012 to 2014 before his current role. Furthermore, he served as a Litigation Attorney at the Employment Rights Group and was the Editor for the China Guiding Cases Project at Stanford Law School. Chivers has gained significant experience as he clerked for the Honorable Pamela K. Chen in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and the Honorable Thomas L. Ambro in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He holds admission to the bars of New York and Pennsylvania as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and six U.S. District Courts. Chivers earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center and his A.B. in Computer Science from Harvard College. Furthermore, he completed the International Chinese Language Program at National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan.

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