David Feige

Feige was raised in Madison, Wisconsin. His mother was a social worker and his father was an economics professor. Feige pursued his undergraduate studies at University of Chicago.{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aPC.97SSYCZY|title=Bronx Legal Eagle Feige Goes Hollywood, Studies With Bochco|accessdate=2015-07-21|date=2008-09-22|publisher=Bloomberg|author=Boroff, Philip}} After law school, Feige declined an offer to work as an associate at Dewey Ballantine and accepted an offer to work as a public defender in New York City.{{cite web|url=https://nymag.com/arts/books/profiles/17119/|title=In the People's Court: David Feige|accessdate=2015-07-21|date=25 May 2006|author=Kachka, Boris}} He is Jewish.{{Cite news|url=https://www.jweekly.com/2008/08/28/celebrities-25/|title = Celebrities| newspaper=J |date = 28 August 2008}}

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 upDewan, Shaila K. [https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/28/nyregion/lawyer-urges-change-in-conduct-of-lineups.html "Lawyer Dares Bronx Judges to Change the Way the Police Conduct Lineups"], The New York Times, 28 June 2001. in People v. Leo Franco, spawning a series of legal challenges to eyewitness identification procedures around the country.{{cn|date=July 2020}}

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 Steven Bochco (who had read Indefensible) of the TV series, Raising the Bar, which debuted on TNT September 1, 2008 to the highest ratings for a pilot episode in the history of ad-supported cable television.{{cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i9e7f602573f2a544c8b48bb3b0a0b820 |url-status=dead |work=The Hollywood Reporter |first=Kimberly |last=Nordyke |title='Raising the Bar' breaks record in debut |date=2008-09-02 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919034621/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i9e7f602573f2a544c8b48bb3b0a0b820 |archivedate=September 19, 2008 }} It was Feige's first attempt at screenwriting. 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.{{cite news|url=https://movieweb.com/tnt-renews-raising-the-bar-and-saving-grace/|title=TNT renews Raising the Bar and Saving Grace|date=2008-09-29|work=Huffington Post}} 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{{cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/nbcs-firm-be-shot-toronto-188617|title=Entertainment One is to shoot the NBC/Global Television series based on the John Grisham novel starting this summer.|accessdate=2011-05-29|date=2011-05-16|work=The Hollywood Reporter|last=Vlessing|first=Elan}} and In Contempt. He also served as a Co-Executive Producer on a number of shows, including Drop Dead Diva, the CBS legal drama Doubt, and Daredevil: Born Again,{{Cite web|url=https://thecosmiccircus.com/first-report-more-daredevil-born-again-writers-revealed|title=Daredevil: Born Again Writer's Revealed|date=24 January 2023 }} as well as an Executive Producer on the ABC series For Life.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2614384/|title=David Feige|website=IMDb }}

Feige has appeared on Court TV, MSNBC and National Public Radio to comment on legal issues{{cn|date=July 2020}}. He has also written about the law for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and Boston Globe, and magazines like Fortune, Slate,{{Cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/authors.david_feige.html|title=David Feige}} The New Yorker,{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/when-steven-bochco-calls-la-law-nypd-blue-doogie-howser|title = When Steven Bochco Calls| magazine=The New Yorker |date = 6 April 2018}} and The Nation. He was on the faculty of the National Criminal Defense College at Walter F. George School of Law in Macon, Georgia, and is currently{{when|date=July 2020}} on leave as Professor of Law and Director of Advocacy Programs at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey.{{cn|date=July 2020}}

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• {{IMDb name|id=2614384|name=David Feige}}
• [http://law.shu.edu/faculty/fulltime_faculty/feigedav/feige.html Seton Hall Faculty page]
• http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/06/opinion/06feige.html?scp=1&sq=David+Feige&st=nyt
• http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/07/16/innocence_by_the_numbers/

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