David Feige

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Feige at the Miami Film Festival presentation of Untouchable at Regal Theater on March 11, 2017

David Feige is an

TNT legal drama Raising the Bar,[2] both of which center on the life of the public defender. He is also the co-founder (along with his wife Robin Steinberg) and board chair of The Bronx Freedom Fund, a charitable bail organization in New York State.[3] In 2016 he won the Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award[4] for "Untouchable" a documentary feature he wrote, produced and directed.[5] The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.[6]

Background

Feige was raised in

Career

Feige began his legal career as a staff attorney at the Criminal Defense Division of the

Legal Aid Society, and held positions at the Civilian Complaint Review Board of New York City and the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, before becoming, in 1997, one of the founding members of The Bronx Defenders. In 1999 Feige was promoted to Trial Chief. In March 2001, he filed the first motion for a double-blind sequential line up[10] in People v. Leo Franco, spawning a series of legal challenges to eyewitness identification procedures around the country.[citation needed
]

Feige is the author of the 2006 book Indefensible: One Lawyer's Journey into the Inferno of American Justice, which recounts his experiences as a public defender in The Bronx, New York City.

Feige is co-creator with

TNT September 1, 2008 to the highest ratings for a pilot episode in the history of ad-supported cable television.[11] It was Feige's first attempt at screenwriting.[7] The action takes place in the courthouses of New York City and the show deals with issues similar to those of Indefensible, though with fictional characters. The show was renewed by the TNT Cable network.[12] He has written or produced over 100 hours of episodic television having also worked as a Consulting Producer and writer on the television shows The Firm.[13] and In Contempt, a Co-Executive Producer on a number of shows, including Drop Dead Diva, the CBS legal drama Doubt, and Marvel's Daredevil: Born Again, [14] as well as an Executive Producer on the ABC series For Life (TV series).[15]

Feige has appeared on

Walter F. George School of Law in Macon, Georgia, and is currently[when?] on leave as Professor of Law and Director of Advocacy Programs at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey.[citation needed
]

References

  1. ^ "INDEFENSIBLE | Kirkus Reviews".
  2. ^ "Raising the Bar". IMDb. September 2008.
  3. ^ "Bronx Freedom Fund awarded the 2015 National Criminal Justice Association Outstanding Criminal Justice Program Award". 4 August 2015.
  4. ^ "15th Tribeca Film Festival Announces 2016 Juried Award Winners | Tribeca". Archived from the original on 2016-06-01. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
  5. ^ "New Doc 'Untouchable' is Tribeca Film Fest Standout". Forbes.
  6. ^ "Untouchable | 2016 Tribeca Festival".
  7. ^ a b c Boroff, Philip (2008-09-22). "Bronx Legal Eagle Feige Goes Hollywood, Studies With Bochco". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2015-07-21.
  8. ^ Kachka, Boris (25 May 2006). "In the People's Court: David Feige". Retrieved 2015-07-21.
  9. ^ "Celebrities". J. 28 August 2008.
  10. ^ Dewan, Shaila K. "Lawyer Dares Bronx Judges to Change the Way the Police Conduct Lineups", The New York Times, 28 June 2001.
  11. ^ Nordyke, Kimberly (2008-09-02). "'Raising the Bar' breaks record in debut". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on September 19, 2008.
  12. ^ "TNT renews Raising the Bar and Saving Grace". Huffington Post. 2008-09-29.
  13. ^ Vlessing, Elan (2011-05-16). "Entertainment One is to shoot the NBC/Global Television series based on the John Grisham novel starting this summer". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2011-05-29.
  14. ^ "Daredevil: Born Again Writer's Revealed". 24 January 2023.
  15. ^ "David Feige". IMDb.
  16. ^ "David Feige".
  17. ^ "When Steven Bochco Calls". The New Yorker. 6 April 2018.

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