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David Feige
OF COUNSEL
David Feige is counsel to GS&A. He represents individuals and businesses in civil litigation and criminal and investigative matters. David spent more than a dozen years as a public defender in New York City representing indigent clients in a wide variety of criminal matters. From 1997 to 2005, he served as Trial Chief of The Bronx Defenders, a nationally recognized community defender organization. In 2002 he was awarded one of the highest honors in indigent defense: the National Legal Aid and Defender Association’s Reginald Heber Smith Award. David is a nationally known lecturer on trial skills and eyewitness identification, and he serves on the faculty of the National Criminal Defense College. He has taught trial skills for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and at law schools and public defender offices around the country. He has also served as Professor of Law and Director of Advocacy Programs at Seton Hall University School of Law. He is also the co-Founder and Chair of the Board of The Bronx Freedom Fund, the first licensed charitable bail organization in the country.
David is the author of Indefensible, a personal account of his years as a public defender, published by Little, Brown & Co in June of 2006. David has also written widely on criminal justice topics, publishing pieces in the New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Fortune, Slate, and The Nation.
Beginning in 2007, David, along with Steven Bochco, created, wrote, and produced two seasons of Raising the Bar, an hour-long episodic television drama about the criminal justice system. He is a credited writer/producer on over 100 hours of episodic television, and he has worked as a co-executive or executive producer on shows for CBS, NBC, and ABC. In 2016, David won the Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award at the Tribeca film festival, for Untouchable, a documentary feature he wrote, produced, and directed. He has also written, produced, and directed short documentary films for the Op-Docs series of the New York Times and The Marshall Project.