Ori Shaffin is an attorney with Baron & Budd’s Los Angeles, California office, where he is part of the firm’s document review team that works with the Class Action, Environmental, Qui Tam, and Opioid Litigation Groups. Throughout his career, Mr. Shaffin has exclusively represented only those clients whose cases he genuinely and personally supports. He is ecstatic to be part of the Baron & Budd team because the firm’s values align perfectly with his own personal philosophy regarding law and justice.
Mr. Shaffin graduated from University of California, Davis, with a degree in International Relations, focusing on peace and security in the Middle East. He later attended Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, California, graduating in 2013. During law school, he was awarded membership on the Trial Advocacy Honors Board and passionately served as a children’s rights fellow, as well as a special education advocate. Upon passing the California bar exam, he commenced employment at a highly regarded Northern California law firm, where he represented workers and their families in asbestos-related cases.
A California native, born in Southern California and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ori Shaffin is the grandson of four Holocaust survivors. He has drawn upon his ancestors’ extremely difficult and challenging experiences to gain a deep sense of conviction in furthering the preservation of all people’s basic human and civil rights.
Mr. Shaffin lives in the Los Angeles area. He enjoys playing basketball, traveling, and attending musical theater productions in his free time.
Education
Whittier Law School (J.D. 2013)
University of California, Davis (B. A. 2008)
Bar and Court Admissions
California