Top Rated Schools & Education Attorney in San Francisco, CA

A partner at Leigh Law Group in San Francisco, California, Jay Jambeck's practice includes issues involving civil rights, litigation, education law, and labor and employment. He provides representation to clients throughout the Bay Area.

Mr. Jambeck's education law experience includes expulsions and suspensions, the representation of parents in cases involving special education rights, assisting higher education students in matters such as improper credit transfers and student loan legal issues, and the representation of high school and college student athletes. He also provides advice and counsel to public school employees in employment law cases dealing with collective bargaining, transfers, and reduction in force proceedings, and he appears on their behalf at Public Employment Relations Board hearings. Mr. Jambeck's employment law experience also encompasses assisting employees in cases involving workplace discrimination, retaliation and wrongful termination, and he has handled civil rights litigation involving free speech and due process violations.

Mr. Jambeck attended the University of Florida as an undergraduate, where he majored in journalism and received a bachelor's degree in 1994. Remaining in Gainesville, he obtained his legal education at the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law and was awarded his Juris Doctor with honors in 1997. While there, he was senior editor of the Florida Law Review. Prior to joining Leigh Law Group in April 2011, he was of counsel to another San Francisco firm. Mr. Jambeck is admitted to practice before all California state courts. He is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern and Central Districts of California and before the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.