David Ziff has joined Brune & Richard's practice of commercial litigation and white-collar criminal defense.

From 2006 to 2007, Mr. Ziff served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  Before that, he served as a law clerk to Judge Gerard E. Lynch of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.  

Mr. Ziff graduated from Columbia Law School in 2005, where he was a James Kent Scholar, a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and the Executive Managing Editor of The Columbia Law Review.  He also co-coordinated a symposium on state sentencing reform and served as a faculty assistant for courses on civil procedure and remedies.  During law school, Mr. Ziff interned at the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and at The Bronx Defenders.  Mr. Ziff graduated from Brown University in 2000 with bachelors degrees in mathematics and economics.

Mr. Ziff is the author of “Fourth Amendment Limitations on the Execution of Computer Searches Conducted Pursuant to a Warrant,” published in The Columbia Law Review in 2005.