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==Post-diplomatic career==
Following the end of his diplomatic service, Bleich rejoined the partnership at the San Francisco office of Munger, Tolles & Olson.<ref name="MTO"/> In 2016, Bleich joined Dentons LLP<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanlawyer.com/id=1202752417558/Dentons-Bags-ExUS-Aussie-Ambassador-From-Munger-Tolles?slreturn=20160417175356 |title=Dentons Bags Ex-U.S. Aussie Ambassador From Munger Tolles |publisher=The American Lawyer |date=March 16, 2016 |accessdate=June 6, 2017}}</ref> and became group CEO.<ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-bleich-4036354]</ref> Bleich's practice focused on cybersecurity,<ref>[http://www.mto.com/news/headlines/2015/jeff-bleich-and-grant-davis-denny-discuss-cross-border-data-privacy-in-southeast-asia ]{{dead link|date=June 2017}}</ref> trade,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mto.com/news/headlines/2015/jeff-bleich-quoted-in-the-wall-street-journal-on-historic-trade-deal- |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-07-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319021813/http://www.mto.com/news/headlines/2015/jeff-bleich-quoted-in-the-wall-street-journal-on-historic-trade-deal- |archivedate=March 19, 2015 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> and international disputes, as well as on-pro bono work.,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mto.com/lawyers/Jeffrey-L-Bleich |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2013-12-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214232537/http://www.mto.com/lawyers/Jeffrey-L-Bleich |archivedate=December 14, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dentons.com/en/jeffrey-bleich |title=Jeffrey Bleich |publisher=Dentons |date=May 26, 2017 |accessdate=June 6, 2017}}</ref> He was selected in 2014, 2015, and 2016 as one of the leading 500 Lawyers in the U.S.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lawdragon.com/the-2014-15-lawdragon-500-leading-lawyers/ |title=The 2014-15 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers |publisher=Lawdragon |date= |accessdate=June 6, 2017}}</ref><ref>http://www.lawdragon.com/2015/12/06/jeffrey-bleich/</ref> Serving pro bono, he obtained posthumous admission to the California Bar for a Chinese national, Hong Yen Chang, in a petition addressing the unlawful exclusion of Chinese in the 1890s, leading the Court to "right this historic wrong."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-chinese-lawyer-20150316-story.html |title=Chinese immigrant, denied law license in 1890, gets one posthumously |publisherwork=LA Times |date=March 16, 2015 |accessdate=June 6, 2017}}</ref> In 2016, he was profiled by LawDragon as one of the "rock stars" of law.<ref>{{cite web|last=Dewey |first=Katrina |url=http://www.lawdragon.com/2015/12/06/jeffrey-bleich/ |title=Lawyer Limelight: Jeffrey Bleich |publisher=Lawdragon |date=December 6, 2015 |accessdate=June 6, 2017}}</ref>
 
President Obama appointed Bleich to the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board in November 2014, where he was later elected Vice-Chair and then Chair.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eca.state.gov/fulbright/about-fulbright/j-william-fulbright-foreign-scholarship-board-ffsb/ffsb-members/jeffrey-bleich |title=Jeff Bleich &#124; Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs |publisher=Eca.state.gov |date=February 22, 1999 |accessdate=June 6, 2017}}</ref><ref name="auto"/> Governor Jerry Brown of California appointed Bleich to the Governor's International Trade and Investment Advisory Council.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18954 |title=Office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. - Newsroom |publisher=Gov.ca.gov |date= |accessdate=June 6, 2017}}</ref> He serves on various boards including RAND Australia,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rand.org/australia/advisory-board.html |title=Australia Advisory Board |publisher=RAND |date=April 27, 2017 |accessdate=June 6, 2017}}</ref> the Pratt Advisory Board,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/us-ambassador-for-pratt-advisory-board/story-e6frg8zx-1226737054043 |title=Nocookies |publisher=The Australian |date= |accessdate=June 6, 2017}}</ref> Futures Without Violence,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/about-us/board-and-staff/board-directors/|title=Board of Directors - Futures Without Violence Futures Without Violence|website=futureswithoutviolence.org|accessdate=June 6, 2017}}</ref> the American Security Project,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americansecurityproject.org/about/board-of-directors/|title=Board of Directors -|publisher=|accessdate=June 6, 2017}}</ref> and Stanford's Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://casbs.stanford.edu/jeffrey-l-bleich|title=Jeffrey L. Bleich - Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences|website=casbs.stanford.edu|accessdate=June 6, 2017}}</ref> He was elected to the board of his alma mater Amherst College in 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amherst.edu/amherst-story/facts/trustees/biographies/node/684153|title=Trustees: Jeffrey L. Bleich|website=Amherst College|accessdate=2019-10-19}}</ref>
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Bleich's wife is Rebecca Pratt "Becky" Bleich,<ref name="OaklandTribune"/> and they have three children, Jake, Matthew and Abby. He collects [[Elvis Presley]] [[memorabilia]].<ref name="Norington"/>
 
Bleich is a baseball fan who represents Willie Mays and serves on the Board of the Say Hey Foundation.<ref>{{cite webbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Up4x7U20ZVUC&pg=PA565&lpg=PA565&dq=bleich+willie+mays&source=bl&ots=g7Qef8Ww7w&sig=sq8bkEPks_DES_pQiUXAoAshicQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOpuyBlOLMAhWKDBoKHY35CI8Q6AEIJjAC#v=onepage&q=bleich+willie+mays&fpg=falsePA565|title=Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend|first=James S.|last=Hirsch|date=April 3, 2010|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9781439171653|accessdate=June 6, 2017|via=Google Books}}</ref> In Australia, he regularly attended home games of the [[Canberra Cavalry]] [[Australian Baseball League]] team, normally in association with the [http://www.americanaustralian.org.au/ American-Australian Association].
 
==See also==