Jesse Leon is a client intake and research attorney at the Liberty Justice Center. 

 

Jesse is a 2024 graduate of the Seton Hall University School of Law. After graduating, Jesse clerked in the New Jersey Superior Court, Chancery Division, for the Hon. Frank Covello, P.J.Ch. Jesse then came to LJC in 2025 as a litigation fellow.

 

In law school, Jesse worked as a student attorney at the Seton Hall Law Center for Social Justice’s Equal Justice Clinic, where he helped challenge arbitrary and capricious decision-making by the New Jersey State Parole Board, and co-edited a legal primer for incarcerated people. Jesse served as an articles editor for the Seton Hall Journal of Legislation and Public Policy. Jesse interned at the Institute for Justice and the Renzulli Law Firm, LLP. In his free time, Jesse successfully led a grassroots campaign in his town to end an over 85-year-old prohibition on backyard chicken keeping. 

 

Jesse is admitted to practice in New Jersey.