Richard Jaffe is a health care litigator and counselor with a primary focus on cutting-edge medical/legal issues. He repressents  practitioners, companies and health related organizations in complex health care matters throughout the United States, especially legal cases brought by federal and state government agencies. He has extensive experience in Medicare and insurance fraud defense, FDA litigation, professional licensure and criminal and civil scheduled drug prescribing problems, including medical marijuana and OxyContin. He also has represented doctors and companies involved in the clinical use of stem cells, and works on matters involving nutritional supplements.

Clients include the noted immunologist H.H. Fudenberg, cancer specialists Stanislaw Burzynski and Emanuel Revici, and other of the country's leading, cutting-edge health care professionals. He has represented health organizations in civil litigation and provides general counsel services to trade and other health related organizations.

Mr. Jaffe has also filed federal civil rights, RICO and similar actions for health care practitioners and organizations against insurance companies and state officials, and has obtained precedent setting decisions. He has extensive experience representing chiropractors, and is writes frequently on the legal aspects of multidisciplinary clinics and other issues relating to Chiropractic.

Mr. Jaffe has helped organize and testified at several Congressional Hearings on various issues related to patients' rights and access to experimental medicine, and has appeared on national media shows, such as Nightline, Dateline, Good Morning America, 48 Hours.  (See  Articles of Interest ).  Mr. Jaffe is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was a member of the Columbia Law Review.   Mr. Jaffe has an office in Houston, Texas.