Jennifer’s experience includes work on:

• Conducting internal investigations for health care providers on issues of Stark, Anti-Kickback Act, and Medicare and Medicaid fraud and responding to government requests. She has represented clients before US Attorneys General, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Health and Human Services.
• Representing health care providers in intervened and non-intervened False Claims Act/qui tam litigation.
• Conducting global internal investigations for a Fortune 500 company in relation to government allegations of violations of the FCPA and export controls and representing it before US Attorneys General, the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Department of Commerce.
• Overseeing a team of 30 litigators in connection with an internal FCPA investigation and advising on voluntary self-disclosure to the government.
• Advising midsize companies on due diligence procedures when seeking to retain overseas distributers.
• Authoring anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, and trade sanction compliance policies for large, medium, and small companies.
• Researching and advising companies on foreign anti-corruption laws.
• Advising companies engaged in foreign and government contracts on issues relating to the FCPA, foreign corruption laws, and trade sanctions.
• Litigating small business disputes and a class action dispute.
• Conducting customs and export control audits.
• Mediating small business disputes.

Jennifer has served as a law clerk to the Honorable William M. Nickerson of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. Prior to joining Arent Fox, Jennifer advised small, foreign companies seeking to incorporate and operate in Barcelona, Spain. Before becoming a lawyer, she held senior management positions with Habitat for Humanity in Ethiopia and Botswana where she worked closely with government officials, boards of directors, staff, and volunteers to develop new housing and credit programs and to ensure accountability throughout the national programs. She is fluent in Spanish and proficient in French.

Jennifer’s publications include:

• International Trade Considerations In Forming and Managing an International Joint Venture, International Practitioner's Deskbook Series: Joint Ventures in the International Arena 57-122  (2010).  (Contributing author to sections on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Money Laundering.)
• A Comparative Look at the Right-to-Refuse Treatment for Involuntarily Hospitalized Persons with Mental Illness, 29 Hastings Intl & comp. l. rev. 153 (2006).
• The Americans with Disabilities Act: Correcting Discrimination Of Persons With Mental Disabilities In The Arrest, Post-Arrest and Pre-Trial Process, 23 law & Ineq. 157 (2005).

Jennifer’s recognitions include:

• The Albert E. Arent Pro Bono Award given for “outstanding contributions to the public interest,” 2009.
• The Josie R. Johnson Human Rights and Social Justice Award, 2004
• The Equal Justice Award from Minnesota Women Lawyers, 2004

Jennifer was a member of the Journal of Law and Inequality while attending law school.

Jennifer loves to sing, read, bike, run, hike, camp, swim, and do yoga. She also volunteers as a community mediator and to advance the rights of persons with mental illness.