Education

Fordham University School of Law (J.D., 1989), magna cum laude.

University of Chicago (B.A., 1986).

Bio

Jocelyn L. Jacobson was born in New York, New York.  She was admitted to the bar in New York in 1990 and is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  She joined Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson as a litigation associate in 1989.  In 1996 and 1997 she worked on several political campaigns and in 1998 she joined the Office of the Manhattan Borough President.  Jocelyn worked there until 2003, first as the Director of Policy and then as the Director of Policy and Budget.  Jocelyn joined the firm as a litigation associate in 2003.

Jocelyn is an arbitrator in Small Claims Court and is a member of the New York Women’s Bar Association.