As a women-owned immigration and appellate boutique founded in 2004, Jacobs & Schlesinger LLP on Fifth Avenue in downtown San Diego holds AILA membership and LGBTQ+ allied certification through the San Diego Equality Business Association. Co-founder Ginger Jacobs — a Harvard Law graduate and former Covington & Burling litigator — handles complex asylum, VAWA, and U-visa cases while coordinating cross-border matters with attorneys such as Abogada Yunuen Mora, Cross Border Lawyer, APC in Bankers Hill. David Schlesinger (NYU Law J.D. cum laude, Duke B.A. summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) directs the appellate division, taking unfavorable immigration decisions to the Board of Immigration Appeals and federal circuit courts. Jacobs received the 2007 AILA President's Commendation for Outstanding Achievement in Coalition Building and the 2014 Immigration Justice Project Law Firm of the Year designation. The firm's pro bono practice — including DACA renewal workshops and naturalization clinics with organizations such as Casa Cornelia Law Center — reflects the same litigation infrastructure applied to retained matters. Highest-stakes representations involve asylum claims based on gender-motivated violence or LGBT persecution requiring expert-country-condition affidavits and federal circuit court petitions for review under 8 U.S.C. §1252.