William A. Jacobson is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell Law School.
He is a 1981 graduate of Hamilton College and a 1984 graduate of Harvard Law School. At Harvard he was Senior Editor of the Harvard International Law Journal and Director of Litigation for the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project.
Prior to joining the Cornell law faculty in 2007, Professor Jacobson had a highly successful civil litigation and arbitration practice in Providence, Rhode Island, concentrating in investment, employment, and business disputes in the securities industry, including many high profile cases reported in leading newspapers and magazines.
Professor Jacobson has argued cases in numerous federal and state courts, including the Courts of Appeal for the First, Fifth and Sixth Circuits, and the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
Professor Jacobson has a national reputation as a leading practitioner in securities arbitration. He was Treasurer, and is a former member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association, a professional organization of attorneys dedicated to protecting public investors. He frequently is quoted in national media on issues related to investment fraud and investor protection, and in the past has served as one of a small number of private practice attorneys who trained new arbitrators for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
Professor Jacobson is co-author of the Securities Arbitration Desk Reference (Thomson-Reuters), updated annually.
Professor Jacobson is frequently quoted in the media on political and legal topics, has authored many Op-Eds in major publications, and appears on television and radio to discuss politics and the law.
A more complete listing of Professor Jacobson's professional background is available at the Cornell Law School website. The views expressed here are his own and not those of any employer or organization,
The best way to reach Prof. Jacobson is by e-mail here.
My interview on NewsMax: "I think the public is entitled to know if there is a there, there, and if there is Trump will have to deal with it, but if there's not, it's gonna help him enormously, politically."...
"I sincerely regret the way I have alienated some of my Black colleagues and friends. I am deeply sorry."...
The sharpest move towards conservatism is among minorities. "In five years, the liberal advantage among Hispanics went from a whooping 25 points to just 5 points."...
Requires Feds To Propose Specific Redactions: "I find that on the present record the Government has not met its burden of showing that the entire affidavit should remain sealed."...
Having turned on the leak fire hose full blast just three months from national elections, it's pretty cheeky for the feds now to claim everything about the circumstances leading up to the raid has to be kept under seal....
"Disclosure at this juncture of the affidavit supporting probable cause would, by contrast, cause significant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation."...
Contrary to normal procedure, also reportedly is objecting to appointment of a special magistrate to oversee its review....
This is a replay of the Russia Collusion hysteria, where media competed with one another for "scoops" to generate clicks and social media sociopaths competed for Twitter followers....
The scope of the warrant and material seized strongly suggest that securing highly sensitive documents that could damage national security was not the only goal, and appears to be a pretext for a wholesale rummaging through former President and likely candidate Trump's files....
The inventory does not give any indication what the records were, other than that some were marked as having high classifications. What also is clear is this was a wholesale rummaging through Trump's office. They even seized a lot of boxes of documents that had...
As I warned when this started: "Be very suspicious of anything you hear in the media attributable to anonymous sources. The supposed leaks from unidentified persons supposedly with knowledge are either FBI/DOJ whispering in the ear of reporter-scribes which may or may not reflect reality...
Whatever it was, it probably had nothing to do with retrieving records claimed by the National Archives. The mystery Search Warrant is now subject to motions to unseal by Judicial Watch and others....
There's obviously a full-on DOJ-FBI effort to get Trump on something. That's part of what's happening here. But there's probably a lot that we don't know about how that is going to happen. I think we'll find out right after the midterms....
The bakery, which is on the verge of going out of business after almost 6 years of boycott by the Oberlin College community, will have to try to hang on in what could be months or years more of litigation....
Don't take the bait....
“They even broke into my safe”...
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