Education

Jennifer Tracy is a member of the firm’s Government Enforcement & Compliance and Major Commercial Litigation practice groups. Her experience includes representing companies and individuals in government investigations, litigation and internal corporate investigations. Ms. Tracy is particularly adept at managing complex, multi-year investigations. While in law school, she worked as an intern in the Major Crimes Unit of the United States Attorney’s Office in Boston. She was also active in Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation and continues to co-teach negotiation and mediation workshops.

Ms. Tracy has served as co-chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Criminal Law Section Public Policy Subcommittee and is a member of the Criminal Law Section Steering Committee. She has been named a Massachusetts Super Lawyers Rising Star.

Practice Focus

Government Enforcement & Compliance: representation of national corporations and individuals in government investigations and litigation, including pharmaceutical and financial fraud claims.

Litigation: representation of leading corporations and financial institutions in complex commercial litigation and arbitration, including breach of contract, fraud, patent infringement and securities claims.

Representative Engagements

Managed large team of associates in connection with defense of major pharmaceutical company in complex, multi-year federal investigation into sales and marketing practices. Coordinated all aspects of case with co-counsel and client and supervised all productions to government.
Successfully represented leading technology company in claims involving auction rate securities.
Defense of corporations in securities-related investigations.
Part of team that successfully represented national financial institution in complex arbitration, winning dismissal of multiple related suits.
Assisted in successful 3rd Circuit appeal of conviction of former senior executive of worldwide petroleum testing company, resulting in reversal.
Successful representation of defendants in litigation involving alleged breaches of representations and warranties in asset purchase agreement.

Publications and Presentations

“Weathering Management Conflicts in Acquisitions,” co-author, Securities Law360, May 2012.

Professional and Community Involvement

Ms. Tracy is actively involved in the Citizen Schools Mock Trial Program, in which she teaches inner-city middle school students about the legal system. She is committed to pro bono work and has represented a community group dedicated to improving the quality of life for the mentally retarded, a public housing authority in mediation and litigation regarding its tenants, and numerous students and parents regarding students’ educational placement, in conjunction with the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice.