David Feige is an American lawyer, author, and co-creator of the TNT TV Series Raising The Bar. Born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin, he started out as a staff lawyer for the Legal Aid Society’s Criminal Defense Division, as well as serving at New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board and the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem. In 1997, David Feige co-founded The Bronx Defenders, a public defender organization in South Bronx, and became its Trial Chief in 2002. That same year, he received the National Legal Aid & Defender Association’s Reginald Heber Smith Award.

An advocate of eyewitness identification issues, David Feige filed a motion for a double-blind sequential line up in People v. Leo Franco in March 2001, the first to do so. He asked that the eyewitness view persons one-at-a-time with the officer conducting the line ignorant of the identity of the suspect.

As a lecturer, David Feige taught at the National Criminal Defense College at Walter F. George School of Law in Macon, Georgia. He is also Professor of Law and Director of Advocacy Programs at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey.

David Feige wrote a tell-all memoir, Indefensible: One Lawyer’s Journey into the Inferno of American Justice, recounting many of his experiences while working as a public defender in The Bronx, New York City.

Pairing up with ten-time Emmy Award-winning director Steve Boncho, David Feige created Raising the Bar, an onscreen adaptation of Indefensible, which debuted on TNT on September 1, 2008.

David Feige makes frequent legal commentaries on television and radio shows, including MSNBC Court TV, and National Public Radio. He has also written his take on significant legal issues for newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post and Boston Globe; as well as magazines like Slate, Fortune, and The Nation.