Jeff is the Director of the Digital Media Law Project (DMLP) at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. At the DMLP, Jeff coordinates a suite of online legal resources for independent journalists and digital publishing ventures, engages in advocacy on behalf of free speech interests, and researches critical issues affecting the flow of important information to the public.

Prior to joining the Berkman Center, Jeff assisted a wide array of clients in First Amendment, media, intellectual property and Internet law issues as a partner in the litigation practice of Brown Rudnick LLP and later as counsel to Hermes, Netburn, O'Connor & Spearing, P.C. in Boston. Over the last fourteen years, Jeff has represented an international media network and its subsidiaries, major metropolitan newspapers, local broadcasters on television and radio, Internet-based publishers and social media networks. He has written for numerous publications and spoken at a wide array of events on media law and other issues.

Jeff received his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1997, and received his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from Princeton University in 1994.