Jared Jacobson holds himself to the highest professional and ethical standards when providing legal services to each and every client. It is important to Jared to educate his clients on the situations affecting them, to encourage each client to maintain a positive yet realistic outlook and for his clients to take an active role in solving their legal problems. Jared’s goal is to learn about and develop long-term, lasting and professional relationships with his clients.
Jared has extensive experience advising individuals, entrepreneurs and small and large business entities of various types in a variety of business, labor/employment, sports & entertainment and real estate legal matters. Jared has worked with clients in a number of industries including real estate, hospitality, banking, sports & entertainment, public relations, marketing, advertising, food distribution & manufacturing and retail. Much of the work Jared handles includes negotiating employment agreements and severance packages, consulting agreements, independent contractor agreements, operating/partnership agreements, confidentiality/restrictive covenants/non-disclosure (NDA) agreements, talent and management agreements, endorsement contracts, waivers, various types of releases, loan and security agreements & promissory notes, retail and commercial leases, real estate sales contracts and purchase/sales agreements including asset purchase and stock purchase agreements.
Supplementing his transactional background, Jared has experience in employment litigation and general civil litigation matters as well as working with administrative agencies including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the United States Department of Labor (DOL), the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (PHRC) and the NJ Division on Civil Rights (DCR). Prior to founding JJ Law, Jared worked in New York at Sidley Austin LLP and Moses & Singer LLP in their Corporate/Securities and M&A departments. Jared also worked at Wyndham Worldwide Corporation and Feed Your Soul, LLC. Jared serves on the Board of Trustees for The Communities of Faith for Housing and is a member of the Board of Advisors for the St. John's Center for Labor & Employment Law in Queens, New York. Jared is a trained NJAPM Mediator, is on the roster as a R. 1:40 Qualified NJ State Court Approved Mediator and participates as a certified Arbitrator at the Philadelphia Arbitration Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.