Jeff Kurzon
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Jeff Kurzon (left) and Lawrence Lessig at a march for campaign finance reform in Jan 2014 | |
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Political party | Democrat |
Residence | Brooklyn |
Alma mater | McGill University |
Occupation | Attorney |
Jeffrey Mead "Jeff" Kurzon, born in 1976, is a New York City attorney and politician.
Education and early career
Jeff Kurzon graduated from McGill Law School in 2003, after studying abroad at the University of Aix-Marseille in France. He began his career as a lawyer at Sidley Austin, which he later left to create his own law firm.[1]
Public interest lawyering
Defense of indebted law students
Kurzon's firm represent law school graduates who sued in a class action their law schools, including New York Law School and Cooley Law School,[2] for misrepresenting their post-graduate employment statistics[3] to lure students to take on hundreds of thousands dollars in debt.[4]
Defense of unpaid Huffington Post bloggers
Jeff Kurzon was the lead attorney who filed a lawsuit representing a class of about 9,000 unpaid Huffington Post bloggers, claiming that the Huffington Post and its acquirer AOL unjustly made profits by using the unpaid writers' work.[5]
Political career
Kurzon became involved in New York City politics in 2007 [6] as one of the top fundraisers for Barack Obama, raising over $150,000 for the candidate[7] and organizing one of the earliest and largest grassroots groups in New York City in support of the candidate.[8]
Campaign finance pledge
In February 2013, Kurzon declared his candidacy[9] and is on the ballot for the NYC Democratic Primary of June 24, 2014,[10] against 22-year incumbent Nydia Velázquez.[11]
Kurzon pledged to not accept any PAC or lobbyist money,[12] challenging his opponent sitting in the Financial Services Committee to do the same.[13] Also, after the Federal Election Commission issued guidance on Bitcoin, Jeff Kurzon announced he would be the first candidate in New York to accept bitcoin donations from individuals.[14]
In June 2014, he lost the primary to Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez.[15]
See also
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References
- ↑ "An Ideal(ist) House Candidate from NYC". The Armenian Mirror Spectator. February 21, 2014.
- ↑ "Cooley Law gets served some of its own medicine". The ABA Journal. August 2011.
- ↑ "New York Law School sued by students over claims about graduates success". Bloomberg. August 10, 2011.
- ↑ "Kurzon LLP sues Cooley Law school for defamation". The ABA Journal. July 2012.
- ↑ "Huffington Post bloggers suit against AOL". Bloomberg. March 30, 2012.
- ↑ "7th-district Congressional candidate refuses PAC, lobby money". DNAinfo. 2014.
- ↑ "David finds a new Goliath". New York Press. February 27, 2013.
- ↑ VoterBook NYC Group
- ↑ "Attorney announces campaign agaist Nydia Velázquez". The Observer. February 2013.
- ↑ New York Board of Elections Contest list
- ↑ "Three challenge Velazquez". The Times Ledger. May 1, 2014.
- ↑ "Attorney Jeffrey Kurzon announces his candidacy for Congress in downtown district". New York Press. March 3, 2013.
- ↑ "Nydia Velázquez unfazed by potential challengers". The Observer. March 2014.
- ↑ "NY Congressional Candidate Jeff Kurzon". BetaBeat. 4 June 2014.
- ↑ http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/velazquez-clobbers-kurzon-democratic-primary-7th-cd-2014-06-25-075400. Missing or empty
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