PARTNER
JACOB S. FELDMAN received his Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School and his B.A. (cum laude) from Brooklyn College. He is admitted to practice law in the State Courts of New York, the United States Supreme Court, the Second Circuit and the Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals, the Court of Federal Claims, and the Southern and Eastern District Courts of New York. From September, 1977 until December 1987, he was an associate senior counsel in the office of the General Counsel to the New York State United Teachers. Since 1987 he has represented public school districts as general counsel. He has handled the defense of public school districts in major federal and state litigation involving civil rights, age, race, disability and sexual discrimination matters, sexual harassment complaints and special education matters, and appeals to the Appellate Division, First and Second Departments, the New York State Court of Appeals and to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. He has handled the successful defense of dozens of impartial hearings and appeals to the SRO on behalf of school districts. He regularly advises all of our clients on special education matters. He attends 50 to 75 CSE and 504 meetings every year representing our school district clients.
Mr. Feldman is a frequent speaker and participant in various special education law programs, speaking on topics including “Developing a Bulletproof IEP,” student discipline, preparation for and defense of impartial hearings and Section 504, conducted by the Nassau County Bar Association, the Nassau-Suffolk Academies of Law, NYSSBA, the Long Island Association of School Personnel Administrators, LIASEA, NBI, the Council of New York Special Education Administrators, Lorman Education Services, PESI, St. John's University, all of our school district clients, and numerous non-client school districts. He has presented annually at the NYSSBA annual convention. He received LIASEA's 2010 Award of Distinction for his special education work on behalf of school districts. He has been recognized annually by New York Magazine as a “Legal Leader - New York Area's Top Rated Lawyers” annually since 2013 in the fields of education and labor law. He is the author of the “Read All About It” column, a monthly compilation of special education cases appearing in the “Attorney's Corner” of Frontline's Directors' Website.
He is a member of the Labor and Employment Law Sections of the New York State Bar Association and a former Chairperson of the Education Law Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association.
