Authors > Joel Jacobsen

Joel Jacobsen's law blog (or blawg) Judging Crimes: A View of the Bench from the Trenches was recently included on a list of the 100 best criminal justice blogs. He's appeared in courts ranging from Santa Fe County Magistrate Court, presided over by a non-lawyer judge, to the federal Court of Appeals in Denver. He's filed pleadings in the United States Supreme Court.Joel has been counsel of record in over 100 published appellate opinions and hundreds more unpublished ones. He has also set up a conservatorship for an Alzheimer's patient and drafted a non-apology letter that spared an emergency room doctor from a slander suit. His cases have been large and small and... Read full bio