Ranked Band I by Chambers USA, Jillian Berman is recognized as an “incredibly smart and thorough” lawyer with “deep experience.” Jillian “earns her clients’ trust and forges the best strategic path for them.” Jillian is a former federal prosecutor with extensive trial, appellate, and investigative experience.  She represents individuals and companies in white collar criminal and regulatory matters, government and internal investigations, and in complex commercial litigation.  She also advises companies, boards of directors, and individuals on securities and corporate governance issues, and in shareholder derivative actions, breach of contract and employment disputes.

Jillian’s matters span many substantive areas, including securities and commodities fraud (including insider trading, market manipulation and accounting fraud), antitrust and price fixing, money laundering and sanctions, asset forfeiture, restitution, bribery, public corruption, cryptocurrency and cyber issues, legal ethics and fiduciary duties. 

Her clients include corporate executives, portfolio managers and finance professionals, law firms and lawyers, broker-dealers, health care professionals, financial and real estate firms, entertainment executives, compliance officers and others.

Before entering private practice, Jillian served as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York for nine years, where she tried 10 criminal cases and argued numerous appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. As a member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, Jillian investigated and prosecuted a wide range of federal securities and commodities fraud offenses and coordinated parallel civil enforcement proceedings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and other regulatory agencies. Before entering government service, Jillian practiced complex commercial litigation at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. 

A frequent speaker on legal issues, including legal ethics, restitution and forfeiture, Jillian previously served as a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School. Currently, she is co-head of the New York chapter of the Women’s White Collar Defense Association.  She is also an executive board member of the New York Council of Defense Lawyers, a board member of the Federal Bar Foundation of the Federal Bar Council, and a board member of the Adams Street Foundation, which funds and implements individualized programming for low-income high school students in downtown Brooklyn to prepare them for college and career success.

 

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