Following his graduation from law school, Jake served as a law clerk to the Honorable Allyne R. Ross of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and to the Honorable Chester J. Straub of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Before beginning his legal career, Jake worked as a fact-checker at The New Yorker magazine. 

Notable Representations

New York Civil Liberties Union v. New York City Transit Authority, 652 F.3d 247 (2d Cir. 2011). Jake and David Schulz represented a media coalition as amici curiae in a case urging the recognition of a constitutional right of access to proceedings held by an administrative agency. The Second Circuit, citing LSKS’s brief, held that the First Amendment right of access extends beyond the judicial branch and invalidated the Transit Authority’s policy of giving individuals charged with violating transit rules the right to exclude the public from an administrative hearing on those charges.

Willms v. CTVglobemedia, Inc., (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 2011). Jake and David Schulz successfully defended Canada’s largest independent television network against libel claims brought by a Canadian online-marketing company and its owner. The court held that jurisdiction did not exist in New York to litigate the libel claims between Canadian parties, even though a portion of the news report was taped in New York, and further held that the case should properly be litigated in Canada even if jurisdiction existed in New York, because all of the parties and most of the evidence were located in Canada.

News12 Westchester Inc. v. Monroe-Woodbury Central School District, (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 2011). Jake and David Schulz successfully represented Cablevision’s News 12 Westchester in its challenge to a board of education’s refusal to permit the station to film meetings convened to discuss two recent suicides at a local high school. The court held that the board’s concern about the impact media coverage might have on students was an improper basis for refusing to permit News 12 to record the meetings.