Jeffrey Howard Jacobson

Jeff Jacobson is the founding principal of the Jacobson Law Firm, an employment law firm with an emphasis on representation of law enforcement officers and federal employees. Jeff cut his legal teeth as a Deputy County Attorney and Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) in Tucson before starting his own law firm in 2008. As an AUSA, Jeff was honored as Prosecutor of the Year by the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, Southern Arizona Chapter, and also received the Outstanding Prosecutor award from the United States Border Patrol, Tucson Sector. As outside counsel to members of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association for nearly a decade, Jeff represented law enforcement officers from over 65 federal agencies.

For almost 15 years, Jeff has represented law enforcement officers across the State of Arizona as an attorney with the Arizona Conference of Police and Sheriffs (AZCOPS). In this capacity, Jeff has represented law enforcement in internal affairs investigations, officer involved shootings, pay issues, personnel board and civil service commission appeals and hearings, before the Arizona Peace Officers Standards and Training Board, and in Special Actions to the applicable Superior Court. Jeff has defended thousands of law enforcement officers around the United States from thousands of disciplinary matters, more than 100 officer-involved shootings, and other employment matters where career, livelihood, and reputation were all at stake.

Jeff is a Martindale-Hubbell AV-rated attorney and has helmed more than 50 jury trials and more than 300 bench trials in his career. He has filed and litigated appeals in the Arizona Court of Appeals, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, the Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, and the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. He has also litigated dozens of cases before the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the United States Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB).

Jeff has appeared numerous times on television as a legal analyst on HLN (Headline News), the Nancy Grace show and InSession on TruTV (formerly Court TV), and KOLD-TV (the CBS affiliate in Tucson, Arizona.) Since 2020, Jeff has been Of Counsel to Munger, Chadwick and Denker, PLC, though he maintains his own separate practice. 

Jeff is also the co-founder of the Wills for Heroes Foundation, an organization providing support and services to eligible first responders and their families. The Wills for Heroes program began in response to the September 2001 terrorist attacks as a way to give back to the first responder community. Since then, Wills for Heroes programs in 28 states have provided more than 75,000 estate planning documents for first responders. In Arizona alone, the Wills for Heroes program has prepared approximately 10,000 wills and hundreds attorneys have donated tens of thousands of pro bono service hours to our first responder community. Jeff has received a number of honors for his leadership of Arizona’s Wills for Heroes program and in 2011, Jeff received the Presidential Volunteer Service Award (Gold Level) from President Obama’s Council on Service and Civic Participation for his efforts on behalf of America’s first responders.

Jeff received his Bachelor’s degree from Northern Arizona University in 1992, his Master of Public Administration degree from Arizona State University in 1994, and his law degree cum laude from Whittier Law School in 1998. While at Whittier Law School, Jeff received a number of academic awards and was a published member of law review. Jeff was also Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Law Student Division, representing 135,000 law students to the national legal community. Jeff was honored in 2014 as Whittier Law School’s Alumni Attorney of the Year. Jeff is also committed to the legal profession through his bar service. He is a past-President of the State Bar of Arizona Young Lawyers Division and served on the State Bar of Arizona Board of Governors.