Jay Jacobson
Jacobson Law
Jay Jacobson is a personal injury, wrongful death and construction accidents trial lawyer with Jacobson Law in Bohemia, New York. Admitted in New York; J.D., Brooklyn Law School (1993).
Meet Jay
Jay D. Jacobson is a partner at Jacobson Law, a plaintiff’s personal injury firm with offices in Bohemia and Garden City, New York. He practices personal injury and wrongful death law and has been admitted to the New York State bar since 1994.
Jacobson graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 1993 and holds a B.S. in political science from the State University of New York at Albany. Before law school he worked as a private investigator in Suffolk County, assisting attorneys who defended injury cases. He began practicing in downtown Manhattan in 1994, opened his own firm in 1998 and later joined Foley, Griffin & Jacobson.
His cases have involved automobile and bus crashes, construction and scaffolding falls, premises and negligent security claims, and medical negligence. He is vice chairman of the Nassau County Bar Association’s Plaintiff’s Roundtable Committee and is a member of Trial Lawyers Care, which represents families of those killed in the September 11 attacks.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- Admitted to the New York State Bar, 1994
- Admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- J.D., Brooklyn Law School, 1993
- B.S., Political Science, State University of New York at Albany, 1989
Practice Areas
- New York State Bar Association (member)
- New York State Trial Lawyers Association (member)
- American Bar Association (member)
- New York State Association of Trial Lawyers (member)
- Nassau County Bar Association (member)
- Nassau County Bar Association Plaintiff's Roundtable Committee (vice chairman)
- Trial Lawyers Care (member)
- $5.5 Million: Head-on tractor-trailer accident with multiple leg injuries
- $2.2 Million: Terrorist attack victim at the World Trade Center on 9/11
- $1.9 Million: Head-on passenger injury, struck broadside in vehicle accident
- $1.5 Million: Fall from platform, construction accident injury
- $1.1 Million: Slip and fall on greasy floor in lobby of Manhattan office building
- $1 Million: Suffolk County grandmother struck and killed by a car
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