Joseph A. Scherer was physically attacked and injured by Antifa for carrying a sign, “Everybody Deserves Free Speech,” during the violent protests against a speaker at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been President and CEO of GreenFire Energy, Inc.; Partner at Cooley LLP; and Project Counsel for International Power Technology. He received his B.A. in economics from the University of California at Davis and his M.B.A, and J.D. from UCLA where he was a John M. Olin Fellow for Law and Economics and associate editor of the UCLA Law Review.