Jane Fisher-Bryialsen

Jane Fisher-Bryialsen is a founding board member of PEP. After fighting for people extensively in both criminal and civil rights cases, Jane understands the importance of promoting strong, ethical, officials, and that holding officials legally accountable for misconduct has the power to change their behavior. Jane represented Korey Wise, of the “Central Park Five,” who was exonerated after spending more than 13 years in prison. She helped him receive a settlement from law enforcement of $12.3 million, the largest settlement per year of incarceration at that time.

Jane is proudly a Board Member of the Korey Wise Innocence Project at CU Law School in Boulder, Colorado. Before becoming a partner at Fisher & Byrialsen, PLLC, Jane worked as a public defender at the New York Legal Aid Society from 2005 to 2008. Before joining the Legal Aid Society, Jane was a law clerk for two years for the Honorable Gerald I. Fisher, presiding judge of the Superior Court of Washington D.C.

Jane is admitted to practice law in New York, Colorado, Maryland, the District of Columbia, the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, the District of Colorado and the Second and Tenth Circuits. She has been admitted on pro hac vice status in the Western District of Texas and the Eastern District of California on Death Penalty Cases.

She attended Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, graduating Cum Laude in 1999, with a B.A. in Political Science. Jane went on to graduate from George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. in 2003. In law school, she was President of the Criminal Law Society and received the John F. Evans Award for excellence in trial advocacy. While in law school, Jane attended Oxford University’s International Human Rights Program in Oxford, England.