Norman Jacobs is widely respected for his expertise in matrimonial law, business law matters and entertainment law, and has extensive experience as a special master, mediator, and arbitrator in complex civil and probate litigation. He has also represented minor children and has served as a guardian ad litem in numerous cases. Mr. Jacobs is a Fellow in both the American College of Trial Lawyers and the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers; has served, by appointment of the justices of the Supreme Judicial Court to the Political Advisory Committee (1991); and currently serves, by appointment, on the Judicial Nominating Commission, a position he held previously between 1978 and 1982. Mr. Jacobs is an Honors Graduate from Brandeis University. He then graduated from Boston College Law School, where he was invited to membership in the National Honorary Society, the Order of the Coif, and where he was selected as a member of the editorial board of the Boston College Law Review. After graduation from law school in 1964, Mr. Jacobs served as a law clerk of the Honorable G. Joseph Tauro, then Chief Justice of the Superior Court, before beginning practice at the Law Offices of Jacobs, Jacobs & Jacobs. Mr. Jacobs joined Esdaile, Barrett & Esdaile as a partner in 1973. Presently, Mr. Jacobs is a frequent lecturer and contributor to continuing legal education through the Massachusetts Bar Association, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys. He has been selected as one of the best Family Law practitioners by Boston Magazine.