Shaun Dabby Jacobs

Shaun Dabby Jacobs has been an attorney in the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office since 2002. Since November 2016, Ms. Jacobs has worked in the Civil Appellate Division where she handles appeals representing the City of Los Angeles in the California Court of Appeal, the California Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. She has been the supervising attorney of the division since August 2023 and was promoted to Assistant City Attorney in January 2024. Before that, Ms. Jacobs defended the City in labor and employment cases and Los Angeles Police Department officers in excessive force and false arrest cases in state and federal trial courts. As a prosecutor she tried 30 misdemeanor criminal cases to verdict. Ms. Jacobs is also a member of the Office’s Equity Panel and the City Attorney Women’s Association.

Ms. Jacobs has served on the WLALA Board of Governors since 2002 and has chaired WLALA’s delegation to the Conference of California Bar Associations since 2006. She served as the Chair of CCBA from 2022-2023, Chair-Elect from 2021-2022 and as Chief Financial Officer from 2019 to 2021. From 2018 to 2019, she served as the Chair of the CCBA’s Resolutions Committee. In October 2024, Ms. Jacobs was appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court’s Local/Regional Subcommittee workgroup of the Court’s Anti-Bias Committee. In January 2025, Ms. Jacobs joined the Board of California Women Lawyers, where she serves on its Legislation and CCBA committees.

Ms. Jacobs is also member of the State Bar’s Committee on Administration of Justice which analyzes legislation and California Rules of Court proposed rule changes relating to civil procedure. Ms. Jacobs authored the following articles: Domestic Confrontation, Los Angeles Lawyer (April 2010); Why You Should Join the Conference of California Bar Associations, Sacramento Lawyer (Vol. 1, 2023); and How to enact a California bill, Los Angeles Daily Journal (5/10/2023). She has taught MCLE classes for the City Attorney’s Office and CCBA, legal issues in employment cases at LAPD’s Supervisor’s School, and has served as a panelist on various topics for WLALA programs. Ms. Jacobs received her J.D. from Loyola Law School in 1996 and her B.A in political science and philosophy from U.C. Davis in 1992.