Jay M. Jaffe, the President and CEO of Jaffe Associates, Inc., has been involved in public relations for the legal market place for 30 years, and advises some of this nation's top attorneys and other professionals about ways to develop their business. His earlier work, as an award-winning print and television journalist, and as the assistant staff director and spokesman for the House Ethics Committee, have helped him to become especially adept in crisis media relations in the legal arena. He has served in leadership positions in a variety of professional and charitable groups and also as a member and former director of the Mid-Atlantic chapter of the Legal Marketing Association, as a member of the National Press Club, on the board of directors and executive committee of the National Press Club Building Corporation, and on the editorial boards for Marketing for Lawyers; Internet Newsletter: Legal and Business Aspects; and Europe's Professional Marketing. Jaffe Associates, Inc. is the largest public relations firm that specializes only in the legal space and in 1997, Inc. magazine named the firm to its list of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in the United States. For more information, visit the firm’s web site at www.jaffeassociates.com.