Avery Wolff joined the firm in 2025. He is passionate about fighting unchecked corporate power and vindicating the rights of authors, workers, and consumers harmed by corporate malfeasance. He believes strongly in the plaintiffs’ bar as a vital means of private enforcement. He was drawn to the firm due to its reputation for holding powerful actors to account and hopes to rely on his experience in immigration as a law clerk to further the firm’s mission.
To date, Avery’s primary focus has been on the firm’s generative artificial intelligence litigation. These novel, cutting-edge cases are on behalf of classes of artists, coders, and authors who allege their creative work is being illegally appropriated by defendants’ artificial intelligence and machine learning technology without consent, credit, compensation, or transparency.
Prior to joining the firm, Avery was a law clerk for the Honorable Judge Leda D. Wettre in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. While there, he drafted opinions and orders for civil cases, researched novel and complex legal issues, managed a caseload of over 150 cases, and prepared Judge Wettre for daily case management and settlement conferences.
While in law school at Fordham University School of Law, Avery was a Stein Scholar in Public Interest Law and Ethics and the recipient of the Archibald R. Murray Public Service Award. He was active in the Urban Law Journal, National Lawyers Guild, and
Immigration Advocacy Project. Also at Fordham, he was a legal intern for Lincoln Square Legal Services, Federal Litigation Clinic; a research assistant for ProfessorJennifer Gordan; and a Crowley Scholar for the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice.
Avery is a former legal intern for the Door Legal Services Center (New York) and the Legal Aid Society of New York, Immigration Law Unit, for which he received an Equal Justice America Fellowship. For both internships, his work focused on providing counsel to individuals in removal proceedings.
Prior to attending law school, Avery was a paralegal for a New York City-based plaintiffs’ litigation firm, a resettlement intern for the International Rescue Committee, and the director of operations and admissions at the Luria Academy of Brooklyn.
Avery is a member of the New York State Bar Association, Antitrust Law Section.
Avery Wolff
PRACTICE AREAS
Antitrust & Global Competition
Generative AI
ADMISSIONS
- State of New York
EDUCATION
Fordham University School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Dean’s List
Vassar College, B.A., Urban Studies
LANGUAGES
Spanish (conversational)- Biography
- Key Cases
