Eisha Jain joined the firm in 2010. Previously, she clerked for Judge Walter K. Stapleton on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She has also worked at the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression in Charlottesville, Virginia, and at Bredhoff & Kaiser, a union-side labor law firm in Washington, D.C.

Ms. Jain received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 2007, where she was a director of both the Advocacy for Children & Youth Clinic and the Immigration Legal Services Clinic. She served as an executive editor for the Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal and as an editor of the Yale Journal of International Law, and also served on the board for the Initiative for Public Interest Law. Her scholarship on employment discrimination law was awarded the Yale Law Journal’s Michael Egger Prize. Ms. Jain worked as a torts teaching assistant for Professor Jules Coleman, and as a research assistant for Professor Amy Chua. She spent her law school summers interning at a human rights organization in Mumbai, and working in private practice in Washington, D.C.

Education

Yale Law School, J.D., 2007; Michael Egger Prize for the best student contribution to the Yale Law Journal on a current social problem

University of Virginia, B.A., 2003; Phi Beta Kappa

Publications

Immigration Enforcement and Harboring Doctrine, 24 Geo. Immig. L. J. __ (forthcoming 2010)

Note, Realizing the Potential of the Joint Harassment/Retaliation Claim, 117 Y.L.J. 120 (2007)

Admissions

U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; New York; Massachusetts