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Principal
Kaufman Legal Group
UC Law San Francisco
Litigation
Stephen J. Kaufman is the principal at Kaufman Legal Group serving as a foremost authority on campaign finance, election law and governmental ethics. He has spent nearly three decades advising prominent elected officials including U.S. Senator Alex Padilla and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass during her historic victory over a $100-million self-funded opponent.
This expertise in democratic processes extends to a previous tenure as chief counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Caucus Special Committee on Election Reform and a role as a recount attorney for the Gore-Lieberman campaign. Leveraging strategic insight into voting systems, Kaufman chaired the State Voting Modernization Board and currently advises the California Legislative Latino Caucus on complex regulatory matters. He further influences the political landscape by representing labor unions and tribes in successfully defeating high-stakes ballot measures such as Proposition 27.
