Jacob Leiken
Law Clerk at Hausfeld
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Leiken is a law clerk and JD candidate at NYU with 11 years of technical and legal experience spanning antitrust, technology, and human rights matters. A Brown CS graduate and former Microsoft software engineer, he pairs deep product-grade engineering chops—ship-tested on Windows test automation and accessibility—with rigorous legal research and litigation drafting at Hausfeld and the New York State Attorney General’s tech bureau. He has drafted complaints, investigatory correspondence, and antitrust filings while translating complex technical systems into clear legal analysis and visuals. Known for bridging code and counsel, Jacob saved substantial operational time at Microsoft by automating test triage and now applies that systems-minded approach to tech policy and data-privacy disputes. Based in New York, he brings an uncommon blend of hands-on engineering, teaching and project leadership to high-stakes litigation and regulatory work.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Law - JD, Technology Law, Doctor of Law - JD, Technology Law at New York University School of LawBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Brown University
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Github Skills (19)
alexa-skills-kit8
pyret7
boilerplate6
logic6
sdk6
nodejs5
programming-language4
visual-studio4
compiler4
react2
amazon-mws2
mws-api1
data-api1
mws1
javascript1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jleiken/Portfolio-Website
May 2017 - Jan 2025
My resume website
Contributions:1 PR, 68 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 9 months
react
jleiken/Ragdoll-Run
May 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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