Jeff Clements

Jeff Clements is the co-founder and general counsel of Free Speech For People. Mr. Clements is also founder of Clements Law Office, LLC. Mr. Clements served as assistant attorney general and chief of the public protection & advocacy bureau in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office from early 2007 to 2009. As bureau chief, he led more than 100 attorneys and staff in law enforcement and litigation in the areas of civil rights, environmental protection, healthcare, insurance and financial services, antitrust, and consumer protection. Mr. Clements also served as an assistant attorney general in Massachusetts from 1996 to 2000, where he worked on litigation against the tobacco industry and handled a wide range of other investigations and litigation to enforce unfair trade practice, consumer protection, and antitrust laws. Mr. Clements filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. FEC on behalf of five public interest groups arguing that the First Amendment did not shield corporations from campaign finance laws. In private practice Mr. Clements has been a partner in the Boston law firms of Mintz Levin and Clements & Clements, LLP. Mr. Clements is a 1988 magna cum laude graduate of Cornell Law School. Mr. Clements is the author of Corporations Are Not People (Berrett-Koehler, 2012), with a foreword by Bill Moyers.