Hammond Chaffetz

Hammond E. Chaffetz (July 9, 1907 – January 12, 2001) was a federal prosecutor and partner at Kirkland & Ellis.

He joined the U.S. Department of Justice, where he became a Special Assistant to the Attorney General, pioneering federal antitrust prosecution policies later upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.[1][2] Chaffetz had been recommended for the position by one of his Harvard Law School professors, future U.S. Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter.

Kirkland offered the young lawyer a partnership at the Washington offices of the firm.

During World War II, he took a leave of absence and became a Navy lieutenant commander.

He withdrew from active law practice in the early 1980s, but remained advisor until his death.