Jess has successfully defended technology founders and executives in precedent-setting cases involving economic espionage, trade secrets, algorithmic price collusion, and national security matters. Her current clients include high profile AI founders as well as leaders in ClimateTech, cryptocurrency, and cybersecurity, among many others.
Her executive practice is distinguished by her ability to assemble and lead sophisticated cross-functional teams that address every aspect of a threatened crisis. Whether the threat comes from federal prosecutors, aggressive regulatory agencies, corporate internal investigations, civil litigants, or malicious actors, she coordinates seamlessly across disciplines – bringing together white collar defense, securities enforcement, civil litigation, crisis communications, and threat assessment specialists to create comprehensive defense and risk mitigation strategies.
In addition to working closely with individual innovators as their trusted advisor and lead counsel in times of crises, she also represents many of the world’s largest and most innovative technology companies in strategic advising, internal investigations (related to everything from whistleblowers to cybersecurity incident response), and insider threat assessment and mitigation. Her litigation and government defense practice, though focused largely on executive representations across a range of technology subsectors, is broad based and also includes deep experience in financial technology/cryptocurrency, healthcare fraud defense, environmental criminal defense, and antitrust defense.
Jess has been recognized by Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, and Global Investigations Review for internal investigations and defense in cases involving White Collar Crime & Government Investigations.