Jef Pearlman

Jef Pearlman is an Equal Justice Works Fellow and was awarded the 2007 Ennis Foundation's Fellowship for First Amendment Law to support his work on free speech in telecommunications and media law at Public Knowledge. He is also a member of the California state bar and assists Public Knowledge as a staff attorney. Prior to joining Public Knowledge, Jef earned bachelor's and master's from MIT in computer science, and spent several years working as a programmer in the telecommunications industry. After developing an interest in technology and intellectual property law, he attended Stanford Law School, interning at Public Knowledge and the Electronic Frontier Foundation along the way, and earned his J.D. in 2006. Jef then spent the next year clerking for the Honorable Judge William W. Schwarzer in the Northern District of California, working on both district court and court of appeals cases, and joined Public Knowledge in October 2007.