Jeffery Sauer is a member in the Litigation and Bankruptcy Departments and is based in the firm’s New Jersey office.

Experience

Jeff is a commercial litigator with extensive experience handling a wide range of complex commercial and business litigation matters, including contract disputes, business torts, and high-stakes, “bet-the-company” cases.  Jeff has also represented fiduciaries and beneficiaries in contested trust and estate proceedings.  In addition, Jeff has represented debtors, trustees, and creditors in bankruptcy adversary proceedings, including matters involving fraudulent and preferential transfers, and has worked with creditors’ committees and litigation trusts in investigating, evaluating, and prosecuting estate and post-confirmation claims.

Prior to joining Cole Schotz, Jeff served as a law clerk in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division, Bergen County, to the Hon. Edward A. Jerejian, P.J. Ch.

Education

Jeff received his B.A. in Biological Sciences from the University of Chicago, and his M.S. in Bioethics from Columbia University. Jeff earned his J.D., cum laude, from University of Miami School of Law, where he served as a Staff Editor on the University of Miami Law Review.

While in law school, Jeff interned with the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office in the Government and Healthcare Fraud Division, as well as the University of Miami’s Children and Youth Law Clinic. He also worked closely with the Cleveland Browns Scouting and Player Personnel Departments on a part-time basis on various scouting projects.

Honors & Awards

Jeff received the Soia Mentschikoff Award for Excellence in Scholarly Writing for his Casenote, Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy: How a Government for the People, Failed the People, which was published in the University of Miami Law Review in 2018. Jeff was also a two-time All-American Punter and Place-Kicker at University of Chicago in 2011 and 2012.

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