Lefkowitz, Jay P., 1962-

Jay Lefkowitz is a litigation partner at Kirkland. He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School, where he teaches a seminar on Supreme Court advocacy. Jay has served as lead trial and appellate counsel in a wide variety of substantive areas, including shareholder disputes, antitrust, product liability, litigation against the FDA and False Claims Act matters. He has also conducted numerous internal investigations for public companies and audit committees.

Jay Lefkowitz (born 20 November 1962) is an American lawyer. He is a senior partner at the Kirkland & Ellis law firm, and he also served as President George W. Bush's Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea. Lefkowitz is a graduate of Columbia University and Columbia Law School. Earlier in the George W. Bush administration, Lefkowitz was general counsel in the Office of Management and Budget and later deputy director of domestic policy at the White House. He crafted Bush's policy on stem cell research. Lefkowitz also serves as a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, in which capacity he teaches a seminar on the Supreme Court.

Kosher in the White House, by Aish.com staff. Born in 1962, Jay was raised in Albany, New York, by American parents who were such ardent Zionists that his father spoke to him only in Hebrew when he was young. In 1991, he married Elena, a journalist who as since become a documentary film producer (they now have three children) Jay became a junior domestic policy aide in the government of Bush One In late 1993, Lefkowitz returned to the law and soon became a partner at Kirkland & Ellis Jay was invited back to the White House to work as General Counsel in the Office of Management and Budget. Soon afterwards the President asked him to become Director of Domestic Policy in the White House. Lefkowitz did accept the President's appointment to be the Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea.