David Freedman Jacobs is an associate at Hecker Fink LLP.
David joined the firm after completing clerkships with the Honorable Maria Araújo Kahn of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Janet C. Hall of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.
Previously, David was a senior communications associate at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where he led public messaging on criminal justice litigation and policing reform efforts. He also worked as deputy press secretary at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he was the on-the-record spokesperson for the Civil Rights Division.
David earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from New York University (NYU) School of Law, where he was inducted into the Order of the Coif. While in law school, David interned with the Southern Center for Human Rights and Orleans Public Defenders. He also served as a fellow at NYU School of Law’s Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, a research assistant to Professor Deborah N. Archer, and participated in the Criminal Defense and Reentry Clinic as well as the Juvenile Defender Clinic. He received his B.A. from Brown University.