Jacobson Law Firm - Tucson, AZ

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 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. In that capacity, Jeff has defended thousands of law enforcement officers around the United States in thousands of disciplinary matters, more than 100 officer-involved shootings, and other employment matters where career, livelihood, and reputation were at stake.

For 16 years, Jeff has represented law enforcement officers across the State of Arizona as outside counsel to members of the Arizona Conference of Police and Sheriffs. 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 Superior Court Special Actions. Jeff has also recently become a panel attorney for members of the Fraternal Order of Police in Arizona.

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 litigated appeals in the Court of Appeals for Arizona, the Ninth Circuit, Tenth Circuit, and the Federal Circuit. He has also litigated dozens of cases before the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the United States Merit Systems Protection Board.

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 Denker Ruiz & Barbour, P.L.C. (and its predecessor), though he maintain his own 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 to give back to the first responder community. Since then, Wills for Heroes programs in over 30 states have provided more than 100,000 estate planning documents for first responders. In Arizona alone, the Wills for Heroes program has prepared over 10,000 wills for the first responder community.

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 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.