David P. Jacobs is a partner at the firm and was called to the bar in 1983. David  practices in the areas of professional regulation and discipline, health law, labour relations and employment law, human rights, civil litigation, insolvency law, constitutional law and international criminal law. The Globe and Mail described David as ‘a tough lawyer’. He has represented tribunals, unions, organizations, corporations and individuals before tribunals and courts at all levels in Canada, Trial and Appeal Chambers of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and various administrative tribunals. He is General Counsel to the Health Professions and Appeal and Review Board, and the Violations Review Committee of the Canadian Pallet Council. He has appeared on behalf of the United Steelworkers in the Stelco Insolvency Application. He has appeared before Boards of Injury and parliamentary committees and has been appointed as a mediator.

David is a lecturer, writer and frequent media commentator on administrative, criminal, labour, human rights, constitutional and international law issues. He has long been active in professional associations, including the Ontario Bar Association in the areas of health, human rights, labour relations, and constitutional law. David was Chair of the Constitutional and Civil Liberties Section of the Canadian Bar Association (Ontario), 1993-1994. He was Co-Chair of the Canadian Bar Association (Ontario) 1998 Institute of Continuing Legal Education Programme on Conducting a Professional Disciplinary Hearing. He was also a member of the Executive of the Labour Law Section of the Ontario Bar Association. David is the author of a section in the leading publication Macaulay’s Practice and Procedure Before Administrative Tribunals.