About Jay K.
Jay K. Temple earned a B.A. from Colorado State University in 2006 and a J.D. from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 2010. He is admitted to practice in California. Those years chart the early arc of a career that has mixed courtroom work, teaching and service to legal institutions.
While still a student he spent time in public defense, interning at the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender in 2006. He returned to San Diego for law school and took on scholarly work as a research fellow at Thomas Jefferson in 2008. That same period saw him volunteer as a judge for the Thomas Jefferson Moot Court Honor Society, helping evaluate oral advocacy and brief-writing competitions.
Temple began his professional legal work at the Law Office of Domenic J. Lombardo. He served as a law clerk in 2009 and transitioned into a lawyer role there after graduating in 2010. Those early years provided exposure to trial preparation and client advocacy. In 2015 he opened the Law Office of Jay Temple, a private practice that handled criminal matters and related work. Records also list an office at Grimes & Warwick.
Outside his practice he has remained involved in professional organizations. He has been a member of the Criminal Defense Bar Association of San Diego since 2010 and is listed again as a member beginning in 2021. He joined the California Lawyers for Criminal Justice in 2010 and in 2019 took a position on the board of the San Diego Indigent Criminal Defense Fund. The mix of memberships and board service signals a sustained presence in local criminal defense circles.
Temple brought those experiences back to the classroom in 2020 when he served as an adjunct law professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. He taught and mentored law students, drawing on his court-side experience and years handling criminal cases. His academic role was one chapter in a career that moves between trial work and training the next generation of lawyers.
He continues to practice law in California, balancing client work with organizational involvement and occasional teaching. His practice focuses on criminal defense.
