As a Senior Attorney, Jacob represents clients in complex immigration proceedings and other litigation. 

Jacob earned his law degree with distinction from the University of Iowa College of Law. While in law school, he interned for nonprofits focusing on immigrant justice work, represented immigrant clients as part of the Clinical Law Programs, and argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Prior to law school, Jacob worked with immigrants and Cuban refugees in Houston, Texas, and at Annunciation House, a homeless shelter serving the border community of El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico.