Trial Skills

Having this in a list of projects does not do justice to Jared's obsession with trial practice. Jared has prioritized this skillset at the head of the host of skills required of a lawyer. He has graduated from the National Criminal Defense College and Trial Lawyers College. He is a member of the National Trial Lawyers where he holds the top 40 under 40 distinction. He is consulted by lawyers across the country in the field of trial practice. He has been brought in to work with clients, work with witnesses, and personally tutor new attorneys.

"Trial is a beautiful endeavor. The closest we get in our system to touching justice happens in trial. Trial is a terrifying endeavor. Loss in a trial being the furthest we get from justice. A terrifyingly beautiful responsibility. A burden the bearers of which are privileged to carry. A privilege earned equal parts in empathy, experience, and expertise."

-Jared Isaacson on Trial

Public Defense

Helping the least fortunate of us, the most vulnerable, those without the ability to hire their own lawyers has been the majority of Jared's career. And despite opening his own firm, this need to help this population was not something he was willing to step away from.

Today Jared still still accepts a few public defense cases, all of which are serious felonies where the clients are facing significant prison time.

Draeger Breath Testing

Jared spent years working with experts, litigating, and exposing breath testing in Washington State. WSP uses the Draeger Alcotest 9510 for its breath testing, but the software and algorithms the machine uses have never been shared with WSP or the public.

Standardized Field Sobriety Tests

For years Jared has been exposing the lack of statistical underpinnings for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) approved battery of Standardized Field Sobriety Tests (SFSTs). There is no way to pass the SFSTs. And the only study that has been done with sober people taking the SFSTs shows that they fail them too.

Beyond that, despite endorsing the SFSTs, NHTSA never intended them to be used as they are. NHTSA in their own studies concluded that there is no connection between impaired driving and performance on the SFSTs.