My name is Jacob Dressler AKA “Jake.” I graduated from Southern Connecticut State University with a major in communications. I also graduated from Western New England School of Law with honors cum laude. I interned at the Mayor’s Office of the City of New Haven under the Director of Communications. I worked for the Committee for Public Counsel Services for the State of Massachusetts in the area of custody and family law. I worked for the Public Defender’s Office of the State of Connecticut in the City of Hartford. I briefly interned with the Corporation Counsel’s Office of the City of Waterbury, of Connecticut. I worked for a number of law offices in the State of Massachusetts and the State of Connecticut in the area of criminal defense, personal injury, real estate, trusts & estates, workers compensation, administrative law and business law.

Prior to practicing law I had a career as a journalist, video journalist, and public relations manager. I wrote for major publications such as The Hartford Courant, the New Haven Register, the New Haven Independent, the Waterbury Republican, and Worth Magazine. Some of my work appeared on CNN, Fox News, Yahoo, and the Tucker Carlson Show. I have volunteered at the New Haven soup kitchen and senior citizen centers. I have published prison newsletters.