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Paul Kaufman

Paul Kaufman

Adjunct Professor of Law

Paul Kaufman is an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, where he has been a member of the Health Care Fraud Unit since November 2022. Prior to joining the District of New Jersey, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Civil Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for fifteen years. Throughout his federal service, Mr. Kaufman has served as lead counsel for the government in a wide range of affirmative matters, including prosecuting health care fraud and defense contracting fraud against targets ranging in size from individual professionals to Fortune 500 companies. He also has represented the United States and its employees in defensive tort, constitutional tort, employment and program litigation matters, and he has handled a small number of criminal matters. He has been recognized for his work in grant fraud, research fraud, customs fraud, and procurement fraud in health care, defense contracting, and other industries.

Since 2009, Mr. Kaufman has served as an Electronic Discovery Coordinator within the U.S. Attorney’s Office community, and he is a former member and sub-committee chairman of the Executive Office of United States Attorneys Electronic Discovery Working Group. He routinely lectures on matters of electronic discovery and civil practice to judges, federal agencies, and Department of Justice attorneys from across the country. He is also a frequent lecturer on the Civil False Claims Act, grant fraud, trial practice, and pre-trial practice for bar associations and the Department of Justice Office of Legal Education, and he trains Offices of the Inspector General across the federal government. In 2015, he received a Director’s Award from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys for his efforts teaching electronic discovery in the Department of Justice community.

Prior to joining the United States Attorney’s Office in 2007, Mr. Kaufman was an associate with Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller, a Philadelphia-based law firm, and clerked for the Honorable Bruce W. Kauffman of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Mr. Kaufman is a graduate of the Yale Law School, where he won the Thomas Swann Barrister’s Union mock trial competition, and a graduate with honors of the University of Chicago. His academic writing has been published in the Boston College Law Review, the Department of Justice Journal of Law and Federal Practice, the Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review, and the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities.

Mr. Kaufman currently serves on the executive committees coordinating high school mock trial in Philadelphia and in Pennsylvania, and he is the Chair of the National High School Mock Trial Championships, the organization responsible for coordinating and supporting high school mock trial for 40,000 students across the United States. An Eagle Scout, Mr. Kaufman is active in Scouting in the Garden State Council as an adult leader and merit badge counselor.