Steven J. Joffee

Experience

Steven Joffee is a trusted advisor and lead litigation counsel to numerous leading national and international companies. His clientele spans various industries, including technology, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, communications, financial services, real estate, manufacturing, and state and federally regulated sectors. He also represents developers, property owners, and other key stakeholders.

Steve efficiently and effectively manages client’s outside counsel needs, such as intellectual property, data privacy and cybersecurity, advertising, labor and employment, corporate and transactional, mergers and acquisitions, health and regulatory, real estate, litigation, and tax.

Steve is a skilled trial and appellate litigator who has consistently prevailed in high-stakes and complex disputes.

He was part of the team that prevailed before the U.S. Supreme Court in the precedent-setting case AOSI v. U.S. Aid where the Court held that the First Amendment prohibits the federal government from placing conditions on federal funding to private organizations that require the organization to adopt and publicly profess a viewpoint that mirrors the government’s view but is not held by the organization itself.

He also prevailed in Evans Development v. Salt Lake City Corporation, in which the Utah Supreme Court held that a condemning authority had exceeded the limits of its authority to take property.