Fred B. Jacob

Fred B. Jacob is a Deputy Assistant General Counsel in the National Labor Relations Board’s Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation Branch in Washington, D.C. Since joining the Board’s staff in 1997, Professor Jacob has focused on the litigation of cases in the United States Courts of Appeals and Supreme Court, involving all facets of the National Labor Relations Act. In addition to his litigation experience at the Labor Board, Professor Jacob has served as staff counsel to Board Member R. Alex Acosta, as a field attorney in the Board’s Manhattan Regional Office, and as grievance chair in the NLRB Professional Association. In 2004, Professor Jacob served a detail to the staff of Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. From 2001 through 2006, Professor Jacob taught labor law at the College of William and Mary School of Law in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Before coming to the Board, Professor Jacob clerked for the Honorable Karen J. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and worked as an associate at the law firm of Morgan, Lewis, and Bockius, LLP. He received his J.D. from the College of William and Mary, where he was Research Editor of the William and Mary Law Review, and his B.A. from Brandeis University.