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Lemor Kosov is the Raskin Legal Fellow at the National Jewish Advocacy Center. After 15 years as a prime-time news reporter, she realized that broadcasting the story wasn’t enough to defend it. Her job was to make the dinner-hour newscast compelling, which often meant standing on the front lines of California wildfires, navigating major crime scenes, and exposing state mismanagement at the Capitol. She covered everything from the Golden State Killer’s arrest to constitutional battles over free speech. Yet, the story that earned her an Emmy Award was much quieter: a human-interest feature about Jack, a Vietnam veteran crafting wooden toys in his garage. As a self-proclaimed “Jack of all trades,” his life remains a universal reminder that behind every headline is a human. This principle carried the sensitivity she tried to bring to each assignment.
When October 7 hit, this conviction became a calling, but not one journalism could support. The disturbing rise in Jew hatred worldwide fueled a search for answers (and legal consequences) the daily news cycle leaves behind. That drive put Lemor in her first law class just weeks after having her third son.
She earned her J.D. from California Western School of Law, receiving academic achievement awards and values-based scholarships, including one for parents balancing school and family; but while her three boys required daily fuel, it was the post-10/7 reality that ignited the real fire.
As global tensions thrust media credibility into the spotlight, Lemor focused her legal scholarship on a glaring evidentiary gap in how the news gets made. In “News that Bleeds: The Constitutional Limits of Sourcing Terror Coverage,” she traces news media to the terrorists they cover, revealing a path to accountability beyond the reach of the First Amendment.
This research naturally drew her to NJAC. After initially drafting amicus briefs for high-profile matters like the Harvard litigation, she now serves as a Legal Fellow. Today, Lemor supports federal civil litigation involving Title IX, the False Claims Act, and constitutional claims. She left the newsroom for the courtroom to ensure the people behind the precedent receive the same rigor as the facts of the case.