Richard S. Jaffe
Registered in New Hyde Park, with a Jackson Heights office by appointment. His firm's article is the only one in this batch that sources its central number to a named public document — the Taxi & Limousine Commission's 2020 FactBook — rather than asserting it. His register entry carries no email.
The bar record
We read Richard S. Jaffe in the New York State Unified Court System’s Attorney Detail Report. Only the shaded green row is generated by the court; the rows marked attorney-supplied were filed by him.
New York vouches for one line of this. The court system’s own disclaimer states that the Detail Report contains information provided by the attorney, except registration status, which is generated from the Office of Court Administration’s database. It further states that an attorney’s good standing and any information regarding disciplinary actions must be confirmed with the appropriate Appellate Division Department. So “currently registered” is the court’s own fact. “No record of discipline” is displayed by the court system but comes with an instruction to verify it elsewhere — and we haven’t. That is why the discipline figure above is a dash and not a tick.
And it tells you which office to ask. Richard S. Jaffe was admitted through the 2nd Department, so that is the department a reader would need to write to. Of the twenty-one lawyers on our New York pages, fifteen were admitted through the Second and six through the First. No other register we use sends you somewhere else to finish the check — and none of the others tells you where.
What the record shows
The article attributes its central figure — a monthly average of injury crashes involving New York City taxis — to the Taxi & Limousine Commission’s 2020 FactBook, and names the year the figure covers. That is what a sourced number looks like, and it is rarer on these pages than it should be. We still do not reprint the figure, because we have not opened the FactBook ourselves.Verified
It also names Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health and the University of Chicago as the sources of two further claims, with the study size stated.Verified
His OCA record carries no email address, and the second office his firm publishes in Jackson Heights is marked By Appointment Only.Verified
He is one of four lawyers on this page whose article treats yellow cabs and rideshare together rather than separately.Verified
What the firm says
He says he was admitted in New York, the District of Columbia and New Jersey in 1995 and Florida in 2022, and in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. New York’s register has no field for admissions elsewhere.Reported
He says he is fluent in Spanish, has a working knowledge of five other languages, and pioneered lead paint poisoning cases on Long Island and in the New York City metropolitan area.Reported
He says he has been listed in New York Metro Super Lawyers since 2011, is a lifetime member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and is a Certified Brain Injury Specialist. He names three reported appellate decisions; those are public record. We print no settlement or verdict figures.Reported
Rideshare
What we haven’t checked
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