About Jacob Henry
Jacob Henry Zoghlin built his legal foundation at Haverford College and American University. He studied philosophy at Haverford, earning a B.A. in 2011. He continued to the Washington College of Law at American University and received his J.D. in 2014. Those years shaped an early interest in public law and regulatory questions.
During law school he combined classroom work with hands-on placements. He served as a student lawyer in the UNROW Human Rights Impact Litigation Clinic in 2012. That same year he worked as a legislative law clerk for the Anti-Defamation League. In 2013 he held internships with the National Labor Relations Board and with the Honorable Laura A. Cordero in the D.C. Superior Court. After graduation he took a contract law clerk role at The Spiggle Law Office before joining Bansbach Zoghlin, P.C. as a staff lawyer in 2014.
His career has been closely tied to a community practice in upstate New York. He became a senior associate at The Zoghlin Group, PLLC in 2016. Over the next several years his responsibilities grew. In 2021 he was named director on the board of the Flower City Arts Center and that same year took on leadership of the firm’s Cannabis Law Practice Group. He was elevated to partner in 2022 and in 2023 accepted the chairmanship of the Zoning and Land Use Law Practice Group.
Zoghlin’s listed admissions include New York and Ohio and several federal courts, among them the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of New York, the Northern Districts of New York and Ohio, and appellate permission in the 2nd and 6th Circuits. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association, a membership he has held since 2017.
Practically, his work combines administrative proceedings, municipal land use matters and regulatory issues tied to emerging state cannabis markets. He has represented clients before zoning boards and in federal district courts. His practice at The Zoghlin Group has included counseling local businesses, pursuing licensing matters and handling litigation that springs from land use and regulatory disputes.
Colleagues and clients see him as a lawyer who moves easily between courtroom filings and municipal hearings. He balances litigation work with appearances before local boards and state agencies. He remains based at The Zoghlin Group, PLLC, where his current practice centers on zoning, land use and cannabis-related regulatory work.
