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Melissa Giangrande Jacobs
Senior Associate Litigation, Arbitration, and Employment
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Melissa is the senior associate in charge of the firm's U.S. Pro Bono practice. In this role, she maintains a full-time docket of pro bono cases and helps oversee and facilitate pro bono matters across the firm's 15 U.S. offices. She focuses primarily on civil rights and criminal justice matters.
Prior to being selected as the Pro Bono Associate, Melissa focused her practice on complex government and internal investigations.
Her experience includes representing clients in matters related to the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Senate Finance Committee, and various state attorneys general.
Melissa's practice includes regularly appearing in court on behalf of survivors of violent crimes and children caught in contentious custody battles. Highlighting injustices plaguing the criminal justice system, she has also co-authored numerous amicus curiae briefs in federal appellate courts and the United States Supreme Court. Melissa was named the 2022 "Volunteer of the Year" by the D.C. Volunteer Lawyers Project and 2023 "Pro Bono Trailblazer" for her work litigating on behalf of pro bono clients.
Prior to joining Hogan Lovells, Melissa served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Deborah K. Chasanow of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. During law school, Melissa worked at the U.S. Department of Justice Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section and served as a judicial extern in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Before law school, she served as a legal analyst at Goldman Sachs.
Credentials
Education
- J.D., Stanford Law School, 2020
- B.S., Cornell University, 2016
Bar admissions and qualifications
- District of Columbia
- New York
- New Jersey
Court admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
- U.S. District Court, District of Maryland
- New York State Appellate Division Third Department
- U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
- District of Columbia Court of Appeals