clients facing FCA liability, Jacob represents clients in a broad range of civil litigation, including administrative law, employment law, higher-education law, and commercial disputes.  

Since joining the firm in 2015, Jacob has authored numerous briefs filed in federal courts across the country, including the Firm’s recent win in the Tenth Circuit in an FCA case raising an issue of first impression at the court-of-appeals level (opinion here: https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/17/17-1143.pdf). Jacob’s recent success also includes defending a $350,000 jury verdict for intentional infliction of emotional distress on appeal to the D.C. Court of Appeals. 

Before joining Gombos Leyton, Jacob taught legal writing as an adjunct professor at George Mason University School of Law and clerked for the Honorable Rossie D. Alston, Jr., of the Court of Appeals of Virginia.