cum laude
Editor, Columbia Law Review, 1963-1964
Best Lawyers in AmericaWho’s Who in AmericaWho’s Who in American LawJudge Joseph M. Proskauer Award, Lawyer's Division of The UJA-Federation, 2001
Alan S. Jaffe is the past Chairman of Proskauer. Prior to becoming Chairman, he spent most of his time engaged in collective bargaining negotiations and in counseling clients on strategic labor law considerations affecting corporate mergers and acquisitions. While Alan has counseled clients in a variety of industries, including health care, publishing, manufacturing and human services, a significant portion of his time was concentrated in the entertainment industry where he represented many of New York’s premiere institutions.
As a volunteer, Alan spent 25 years working on behalf of a variety of social service organizations. He is currently Chairman of the Board of The Educational Alliance, a communal organization serving 40,000 persons a year in Downtown Manhattan. He also is Vice-Chairman of the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG), a public interest law firm serving 36,000 clients a year, as well as Vice-Chairman of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York. Alan is a member of the Executive Committee and Board of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. He has served as a member of the Board of Visitors of Columbia Law School. From 1992-1995, Alan was President of UJA-Federation of New York, the largest local philanthropy of its kind in the world, whose beneficiaries serve nearly four million persons annually in New York and Israel, and he remains on the Board of that organization.
Alan is a past Executive Committee and Board Member of the United Jewish Communities, the American Jewish Committee, the Council of Jewish Federations, and the Jewish Agency for Israel, and is a past member of the Executive Committee and Board of Beth Israel Medical Center, where he chaired its legal committee. Alan also has served as a mayoral appointee to the Board of Directors of the New York Sports Development Corporation, the New York City Public/Private Initiatives, Inc., and the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City.