Staff Attorney

Since joining Children’s Rights in 2006, Jeremiah Frei-Pearson has worked primarily on the Oklahoma litigation and on monitoring reform in New Jersey and Washington, DC. Before joining Children’s Rights, Mr. Frei-Pearson practiced in the litigation department of Kaye Scholer LLP, where he worked on a variety of complex antitrust cases and pro bono matters. In 2004 and 2005, Mr. Frei-Pearson received the Kaye Scholer Pro Bono Achievement Award for his work on a death penalty case and several social security cases; he recently received the 2008 Thurgood Marshall Award from the New York City Bar Association for his pro bono death penalty work. He is currently a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Civil Rights Committee, an executive committee member of the American Constitution Society’s New York Lawyer Chapter, and a volunteer member of the Election Protection Coalition.

Mr. Frei-Pearson earned his B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude) from Skidmore College in 2000, and his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2003. As a law student, he was a Public Interest Fellow and Senior Symposium Editor of the Stanford Law & Policy Review. He organized and supervised a program providing direct legal services to poor people, taught children in prison, worked in a legal clinic for the mentally ill, and co-founded the Stanford Chapter of the American Constitution Society. In 2001, Mr. Frei-Pearson interned for the Honorable Shira Scheindlin of the Southern District of New York. As a college student, he interned for Senator Ted Kennedy and for several organizations that provide services to children.