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JEANNIE RHEE PARTNER WILMERHALE
VETERAN TRIAL ATTORNEY WITH VAST GOVERNMENT EXPERTISE As a partner with one of the nation’s top law firms, veteran trial attorney Jeannie Rhee conducts investigations into some of the most sensitive cybersecurity and data breach incidents in the world.
investigations and also prosecuted cases involving mail and wire fraud, healthcare fraud, bribery, money laundering, false statements, and conspiracy.
border money-laundering and tax evasion investigations, and a financial lender in investigations alleging fraudulent practices involving government guaranteed loans. She Throughout her career, Rhee’s legal has defended a former government officer accused in a national Rhee is with WilmerHale, where representation includes extensive she focuses on defending clients criminal and civil matters in both the security investigation of conspiracy, immigration fraud, and improper subject to governmental related public and private sectors. “I am a litigation and investigations, doer – I like the satisfaction of solving access to classified information. She also defended a congressman including white collar and securities real problems and working with enforcement cases. Among them others to get to that end,” she said. She in a federal public corruption case. are large defense contractors, major describes the most important quality Adding to her case list, she was also successful in the conviction of a financial institutions, and top in a woman leader as fearlessness. retail clients. “You have to be willing to step in and foreign national for attempting to kill lead. It can and should be done in an his estranged wife upon refusal to Her career includes high level sponsor citizenship. inclusive and welcoming way - you government experience with the need to be thoughtful and deliberative Rhee has known she’s wanted to be Department of Justice, the Office of – but at the end of the day, someone a lawyer since she debuted in a fourth Legal Counsel, and the United States has to be in charge. It’s important to grade play as a lawyer defending a Attorneys’ Office for the District of exude confidence and to believe in piece of candy on trial for causing Columbia as a prosecutor in its fraud your own abilities,” she said. tooth decay. “It was the first time I and public corruption section. She wore a suit and stood up to present has advised the Attorney General, Cases she’s worked on include a closing argument. Wow. I still the White House and other senior defending a defense contractor in remember that moment. I felt so agency officials regarding criminal multiple agency investigations in empowered. I still feel that way every law, criminal procedure, executive connection with cybersecurity and time I stand up in a courtroom. That privilege, civil rights, national security the leak of classified information feeling never goes away,” she said. PDJ and cybersecurity. She has conducted charges. She has represented a numerous federal grand jury multinational bank in federal crossRead more at DIVERSITYJOURNAL.COM
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