Jackie Fielding

Jackie Fielding is an associate in the firm’s business litigation practice, with an emphasis on complex civil and healthcare litigation matters. Jackie has represented clients in many jurisdictions across the country, appearing in federal district courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veteran’s Claims, and the Delaware Court of Chancery.

Jackie has a significant history of public interest lawyering and pro bono work. Jackie’s pro bono experience touches on a wide variety of topics, including criminal justice reform, policing oversight and reform, reproductive rights and access, conditions of confinement, criminal sentence reduction, veteran’s benefits, housing advocacy, innocence work, and immigration.

Jackie received a B.S. in Business Administration and a B.A. in Women’s and Gender Studies from the College of Charleston, and her J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School. While in law school, she interned with the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Department, Special Litigation Section; and the ACLU of Minnesota.

After law school, Jackie completed a two-year Robina Public Interest Scholar Fellowship at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, where she focused on criminal justice reform and ending mass incarceration. She then clerked for the Honorable Taryn A. Merkl, Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Jackie also worked as a business litigator at a New York City law firm before joining Robins Kaplan.

Education

University of Minnesota Law School, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif (2020), Minnesota Law Review, Staff Member (2018-2019), Managing Editor (2019-2020)

College of Charleston, B.S. in Business Administration; B.A. in Women’s and Gender Studies, cum laude (2013)

• University of Minnesota Law School, William B. Lockhart Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Leadership, and Service (2020)
• William McGee National Civil Rights Moot Court: Best Oralist; Top Three Brief Award (2020)
• Minnesota Women Lawyers, Equal Justice Award, Honorable Mention for Paper, “Silence is Golden: Requiring Attorney Consultation and Cosigning Before a Juvenile Can Waive Their (Precious) Miranda Rights” (2020)
• University of Minnesota Law School, Book Award, Constitutional Law: 14th Amendment
• University of Minnesota Law School, Book Award, Sex Discrimination Seminar

Civic

• Chicago Rape Crisis Hotline, Volunteer Rape Crisis Counselor (2016-2017)
• AmeriCorps Volunteer - Advocate at the Milwaukee County Restraining Order Office (2014-2015)
• AmeriCorps Volunteer - Assistant Teacher in a Nonprofit Daycare Center Aiming to Help Teen Moms (2013-2014)

Articles

“Outlawing Police Quotas,” Brennan Center for Justice (July 2022)

“Revenue Over Public Safety,” Brennan Center for Justice (July 2022)

“Criminal Legal Reform One Year into the Biden Administration,” Brennan Center for Justice (January 2022)

“Miscarriage of Justice: The Danger of Laws Criminalizing Pregnancy Outcomes,” Ms. Magazine (November 2021)

“A Courts-Focused Research Agenda for the Department of Justice,” Brennan Center for Justice (April 2021)

“Misdemeanor Convictions Cause Real Harm. New York Needs a New Approach,” The Appeal (March 2021)

“Poverty and Mass Incarceration in New York: An Agenda for Change,” Brennan Center for Justice (February 2021)

“The Most Broken of the Broken,” Brennan Center for Justice (January 2021)

“A Federal Agenda for Criminal Justice Reform,” Brennan Center for Justice (December 2020)

“Wreaking Extraordinary Destruction”: Defendant’s Irreplaceability as Presumptively Reasonable Grounds for Downward Departure in Sentencing,” Minnesota Law Review (May 2020)

“Men Fear False Allegations. Women Fear Sexual Misconduct, Assault, and Rape.” Minnesota Law Review (November 2018)