Jessica leads the Intake and Conflicts Services Department, serves as a member of the Office of General Counsel, and advises the firm's attorneys on professional responsibility and ethics-related matters.

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Jessica is a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Professional Guidance Committee, which provides informal and formal opinions to Philadelphia attorneys on a variety of ethics issues. She has participated in a number of continuing legal education programs on ethics as a course planner and panelist. Jessica also teaches professional responsibility as an adjunct professor at University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law. 

Before joining the firm, Jessica first worked as an attorney in the litigation department of other large law firms. She also taught advanced legal writing as an adjunct professor at Widener Law School.

Jessica is a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Professional Guidance Committee, which provides informal and formal opinions to Philadelphia attorneys on a variety of ethics issues. She has participated in a number of continuing legal education programs on ethics as a course planner and panelist. Jessica also teaches professional responsibility as an adjunct professor at University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law. 

Before joining the firm, Jessica first worked as an attorney in the litigation department of other large law firms. She also taught advanced legal writing as an adjunct professor at Widener Law School.

Education

  • Temple University, LL.M., 2008, trial advocacy 
  • University of Michigan Law School, J.D., 2002, notes editor, Michigan Law Review; board member, Campbell Moot Court
  • Duke University, B.A., cum laude, 1999, English, senior news editor, The Chronicle

Bar Admissions

  • New Jersey
  • New York
  • Pennsylvania

Court Admissions

  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York