Jonathan M. Kirshbaum is Chief of the Non-Capital Habeas Unit at the Federal Public Defender, District of Nevada in Las Vegas. He has been working exclusively on 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petitions in the Non-Capital Habeas Unit for over 12 years and has been the Chief for the last 5. He has written several articles focusing on federal habeas corpus issues and has conducted numerous trainings on many different aspects of habeas and criminal law. Prior to coming to Las Vegas, he was a public defender at the appellate level for 13 years in New York City, he worked in the Staff Attorney’s Office for the Second Circuit, clerked for a federal magistrate judge in New York City, and taught as an adjunct clinical professor at Brooklyn Law School.