Shavar jeffries bio

Shavar Jeffries is president of Democrats for Education Reform, and its affiliate organization, Education Reform Now.

Shavar ran an institutional-reform and class-action litigation clinic at Seton Hall Law School's Center for Social Justice in Newark, New Jersey.

In this role, he helped numerous clients, in both individual and class actions, defend themselves against consumer fraud, unlawful education policies, and housing inequity, among other matters.

From 2008 to 2010, Shavar was counsel to New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram.

Shavar oversaw all multi-state investigations, ranging from securities and consumer fraud to environmental protection and products liability. He also supervised the Division on Civil Rights, the Juvenile Justice Commission, and the Victims of Crime Compensation Organization.

Earlier in his career, Shavar was counsel to the firm and Deputy Director of the Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest and Constitutional Litigation at Gibbons P.C., where