Overview
Madeleine Jackman (MJ) is an associate at Dovel & Luner.
MJ joined Dovel & Luner after graduating from Harvard Law School. During law school, MJ represented clients through the Harvard Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation, the Criminal Justice Institute, Prison Legal Assistance Project, and Harvard Immigration Clinic at Greater Boston Legal Services. MJ was a Student Writing Editor on the Harvard Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review. She was a teaching fellow for the Trial Advocacy Workshop and for Advocacy: The Courtroom and Beyond. MJ interned at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, as well as the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project.
MJ’s work focuses on the firm’s mass torts practice, empowering clients to seek justice and holding corporations accountable for the injuries they cause.
MJ was born and raised in Southern California. Before attending law school, she worked in education in Denver, Colorado and the nonprofit sector in Boston, Massachusetts.
In her free time, MJ enjoys hiking and camping with friends, reading poetry, and hanging out with her husband and cat.
Education
- Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude)
- UMass Amherst Honors College (B.A., cum laude)
Personal Facts
- MJ’s cat is named after a character from Jane Eyre.
- MJ has been hang-gliding in the San Bernardino mountains.
- During college, MJ spent time in Greece supporting rescue operations and aid for asylum-seekers fleeing the Syrian Civil War.
- MJ officiated her college roommate’s wedding.
Joining Dovel & Luner
I went to law school knowing that I want to help others, to protect people’s rights when the systems are stacked against them. After spending a summer at Dovel & Luner, I knew I was in the right place. I get to spend every day working on behalf of clients who have been wronged, and pushing back against powerful corporate adversaries. From day one, I have had the opportunity to meaningfully contribute to our high-stakes cases. And I love being a trial attorney at a firm where curiosity, creativity, compassion, and collaboration are core to what we do.