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Julie Grohovsky is a former federal prosecutor whose practice focuses on cases brought under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act. An accomplished trial lawyer, Julie has investigated hundreds of cases, tried over forty cases to verdict, and argued appellate cases in both the local and federal courts. She is the former Director of Training for the United States Attorney’s Office in the District of Columbia, where she was responsible for training all of the lawyers and support staff in the largest U.S. Attorney’s Office in the country.. From 2001 to 2004, Julie served as an Attorney Advisor in the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Justice, where she investigated allegations of fraud, waste, and abuse within the Department and its components, including the FBI.. Julie began her career in private practice working for the law firm of Crowell & Moring, where she defended large corporations who were sued under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act. She also defended product liability cases brought against Chrysler/AMC Jeep and was a member of the firm’s public service, associate’s, and summer associate committees.. Julie served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia from 1991 to 2001. During her time as an AUSA, Julie specialized in prosecuting sexual assault cases and received numerous awards from law enforcement and the Department of Justice. In 1998, she was awarded an Atlantic Fellowship in Public Policy and spent ten months studying how sex crimes are investigated and prosecuted in the UK. At the conclusion of her fellowship, Julie published an article in The Journal of Criminal Law, a British Law Review, entitled, “Giving Voice to Victims – Why the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales Should Allow Victims to Speak Up for Themselves.”. Julie holds a B.A. in English from John Carroll University and is a 1986 graduate of The Georgetown University Law Center, where she served on The Tax Lawyer law review. She clerked for The Honorable Virginia L. Riley of the D.C. Superior Court. A former member of the Adjunct Faculty at the American University Washington College of Law, Julie has lectured in the US and UK on issues of criminal law, criminal investigations, sexual abuse, domestic violence, victims’ rights, and children as witnesses. From 2004 to 2006, she served on the Advisory Board of The Tree House, Montgomery County Maryland’s Child Assessment Center, which supports children who are victims of sexual and/or physical abuse and has consulted for the National Institute of Corrections Project on Addressing Prison Rape.. Julie is admitted to practice law in the Districe of Columbia and Ohio.

Julie E. Childs, JD, LLM is the Director of the website and a Consultant to the Department of Justice’s Elder Justice Initiative in Washington, D.C

Joy has been practicing immigration law exclusively since 2007. On the family side, she represents couples in consular processing and adjustment applications based on marriage and other family-based petitions. She is particularly known for her representation of G-4 and A-1/2 visa holders in marriage-based cases. Joy has been a leading figure counseling bi-national LGBT couples on legal options to remain together in the United States before the fall of DOMA, to filing hundreds of marriage-based adjustment applications post-DOMA. She has a successful track record securing marriage-based permanent residency where both spouses are transgender, even pre-DOMA. Her practice also focuses on parent-child sponsorships, both adjusting status and consular processing. Joy specializes in removal of conditions for conditional residents as well as naturalization.. Prior to practicing immigration, Joy gained experience in employment, civil rights, and product liability class action litigation at California-based law firms and was originally barred in California.. Joy is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Josh Gerben is the founder of Gerben Law Firm PLLC. He is a trademark lawyer and counselor-at-law.. Mr. Gerben has helped a wide range of clients with over 2,900 trademark matters and issues.. Mr. Gerben attended the American University Washington College of Law and The George Washington University School of Business and Public Management.

Jordan Savitz is a Principal in the Business Law and Transactions practice group at Baker Donelson, recognized for his forward-thinking and business-minded approach to client representation. Jordan advises clients in all stages of the business life cycle, from choosing the appropriate type and jurisdiction of a new entity, to complex stockholder and operating agreements, restrictive covenant drafting and dispute resolution, employment agreements, complex contract drafting, and negotiation (including Master Service Agreements and home improvement contracts), through succession planning, mergers and acquisitions, and more.. Mr. Savitz grew up in an entrepreneurial environment. He learned to love the challenges inherent in growing a successful business and understands the importance of small businesses in the community. In high school, Mr. Savitz formed his first business venture, OmniNoise Productions, which he used as a platform to showcase local musicians in three "Battle of the Bands" competitions. While a student at Boston University, Jordan gained first-hand experience in finance at Merrill Lynch, commercial real estate at Edens & Avant (now Edens), and branding from both Feld Entertainment (the parent company to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus), and Chipotle Mexican Grill, where he was a Student Brand Manager. Mr. Savitz graduated law school cum laude, with a concentration in business law, from the University of Baltimore, where he simultaneously obtained his MBA.. Mr. Savitz leverages his background and passion for supporting entrepreneurship to understand his clients' business model and strategic objectives, and to provide practical legal advice that hedges against current and future risks, while considering business priorities that many other lawyers overlook.. Licensed to practice law in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

Jonathan Nace is a partner at Nidel & Nace where his practice focuses on complex consumer protection. Mr. Nace has litigated cases through trial, and obtained numerous favorable outcomes for his injured clients. Mr. Nace has also authored successful briefs in the Maryland Courts of Appeals and argued in federal appellate courts.. His consumer protection focus is trifold.  First, Mr. Nace litigated matters related to the safety and efficacy of food and supplements.  Second, he has respresented clients that have been subject to deceptive practices by insurance companies, And third, Mr. Nace practices in the field of privacy law, representing those who have been subject to data breach, or have had their personal and sensitive material wrongfully disclosed.. Jonathan was born in Washington, D.C. In 2001 he graduated from Emory University with a degree in philosophy. He is a graduate of the Tulane University School of Law where he received a Juris Doctor, as well as a Certification in Sports Law. While at Tulane he was a  Managing Editor of the Sports Lawyers Journal.

Jonathan C. Puth is a member of Correia & Puth and an advocate for the civil rights of employees. Mr. Puth represents clients with claims of sexual harassment, workplace discrimination, discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation, whistleblower retaliation, and claims for wages, commissions, and contract rights. Mr. Puth is admitted to practice before the state and federal courts of the District of Columbia and Maryland, and the United States Supreme Court.. Mr. Puth regularly advises clients regarding all aspects their employment relationships and their legal rights, including potential discrimination claims, terms of separation from employment, employment contracts, and severance negotiations. Mr. Puth also counsels employees who are facing unfair treatment or other difficulties in the workplace. Mr. Puth served as co-counsel to the plaintiff class in Hartman v. Powell, a gender discrimination class action that garnered the largest award in the history of the Civil Rights Act, and was awarded the 2000 Trial Lawyer of the Year award by Trial Lawyers for Public Justice for his work on that landmark case. Mr. Puth has for years been selected for inclusion by Super Lawyers and by Best Lawyers for his work representing employees in the Washington, DC region, and is rated by Martindale-Hubbell as “AV Preeminent,” the highest attorney peer review rating.. Throughout his career Ms. Puth has continually devoted his practice to the representation of employees, not employers, with claims of sex harassment, whistleblower retaliation, discrimination, wage and commission theft, severance negotiations, contract disputes, and employee counseling.. Mr. Puth is Past President of the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association (MWELA), a voluntary bar association of over 350 members dedicated to the representation of employees and to the advancement of employee rights. He has served on MWELA’s board since 1998 and is a long-standing and active member of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA). Mr. Puth has worked continually to advance the interests of the plaintiffs’ employment law bar, including by leading and directing continuing education programs, by writing and filing amicus curiae briefs with area courts and the United States Supreme Court, and by working to increase dialogue among employment law practitioners in the region. Mr. Puth received his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1992. Prior to law school, Mr. Puth received his B.A. from the University of Colorado in 1981, and was then employed as an advocate for civil rights and the environment with non-profit organizations and for United States Congressman John Conyers, Jr.

John Ryan is a registered patent attorney with more than 30 years of experience in handling matters involving litigation, due diligence, licensing, opinion work (e.g., infringement, validity, and freedom-to-operate opinions) portfolio management, and patent preparation and prosecution. He has worked in a wide variety of technical disciplines including chemistry, biotechnology, medical device, biologics, in-vitro diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, catalytic antibodies and antibody engineering, antibiotics, veterinary compounds, genetics, protein/proteomics, drug delivery, vaccines, health care, dental and aerospace adhesives, dental and surgical devices, automotive devices, telecommunication, and electronic devices and computers.. John previously served as vice president and chief patent counsel for an international diagnostic company.. John was also an adjunct professor at Albany Law School and taught courses on the licensing of intellectual property.

John P. Mahoney focuses his practice on litigating federal employment law, labor, and national security clearance law cases. He counsels and represents federal employees, contractors, agencies, unions, and employee associations in a wide range of issues, including employment discrimination, EEOC complaints, MSPB appeals, whistleblower retaliation cases, and more. He is a nationally recognized attorney who has earned a Preeminent® Rating from Martindale-Hubbell® and has been selected as a 2017 Top Rated Lawyer in Labor & Employment Law. Mr. Mahoney, who also served as the Vice Chair of and an administrative judge with the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) Personnel Appeals Board (PAB), has an impressive record of success and is known for being able to deliver smart solutions along with caring advocacy.. To learn more about John P. Mahoney, Esq. visit his profile page on the website at:

John McKnight is a Senior Litigation Counsel in the Washington, DC office of Sanford Heisler Sharp, LLP, a national law firm with offices in Washington DC, New York, California, Tennessee, and Maryland. He received his J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law in 2011.. Mr. McKnight is experienced in the representation of clients in qui tam lawsuits under the U.S. False Claims Act and works on sealed and unsealed qui tam whistleblower cases involving fraud against the federal and state governments. He was an integral part of the litigation team that ultimately secured an $11.3 million settlement in U.S. ex rel. Cox v. Smith & Nephew, the first Trade Agreements Act settlement involving a medical device company. In addition to the Trade Agreements Act, Mr. McKnight works on cases involving the SEC Whistleblower program, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Price Reduction Clause, the Price Adjustment Clause, Medicare procurement guidelines, and numerous other fraud-based statutes.. Mr. McKnight is a member of the Maryland Bar Association, and speaks intermediate-level Mandarin Chinese.. *****. Prior to joining Sanford Heisler Sharp, LLP, Mr. McKnight was an Associate at McKnight and Kennedy, LLC in Silver Spring, Maryland, which he joined following his graduation from the University of Maryland School of Law.. While at the University of Maryland, Mr. McKnight interned with the Human Rights Team at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, and with United States District Court Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. (Retired) of the District of Columbia, District of Columbia Superior Court Judge William Jackson, and Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson of the United States District Court of the District of Columbia. He also participated in the University of Maryland’s International and Comparative Law Clinic in China, where he worked with actors in the Chinese microcredit industry.

John is a Managing Shareholder at Maggio + Kattar. He focuses his practice on corporate business immigration representing clients ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to small and medium sized enterprises in a variety of industries, including high tech, engineering, health, finance and manufacturing. John leverages the substantial business and operational experience gained from working in both the law firm setting and as in-house corporate counsel to create sophisticated, comprehensive business immigration policies for his clients. He has expertise in all facets of the employment-based arena including routine and complex immigrant and non-immigrant matters, the immigration implications of mergers and acquisitions, corporate best practices, and I-9 and social security "no-match" letters.John is consistently recognized by national and international publications for his contributions to the field including by Super Lawyers, U.S. News and World Report's Best Lawyers, Who's Who Among Corporate Immigration Attorneys and by Washingtonian Magazine as one of Washington D.C.'s Best Lawyers in Cross Border Practice. He is quoted regularly in various publications concerning business immigration matters, including the Corporate Legal Times, The Washington Post and Computerworld. John is a regular lecturer on business immigration law for Business on behalf of the District of Columbia Bar's Continuing Legal Education program, as well as at various professional conferences nationwide. He is also a member of the Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers, an exclusive global association of leading business immigration lawyers.

Joel L. Pettit is a former Marine Corps Judge Advocate and solo practitioner based in Washington, DC, specializing in all phases of the Integrated Disability Evaluation System (IDES). He has advised or represented over 1000 Service members and veterans during Informal and Formal Physical Evaluation Boards (IPEB and FPEB, respectively), post-FPEB appeals, and VA appeals.. Additionally, Joel assists Service members with everything from Medical Evaluation Boards (MEB) and military record corrections to Medical Readiness Reviews (MRR), Line of Duty (LOD) issues, and veteran disability appeals. Joel has the depth of experience to tackle any issue related to the IDES.. Prior to founding Joel Pettit Law, Joel worked for the Department of the Navy in its elite Temporary Disability Retirement List (TDRL) Unit at the FPEB aboard the Washington Navy Yard.. Between Joel’s Marine Corps career and his most recent FPEB position, Joel served as a Counterespionage and Counterintelligence Special Advisor with the FBI and as a healthcare executive at DaVita Kidney Care.. Joel is a graduate of the University of California Los Angeles and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History, and a Master of Business degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, with focuses on Finance, Accounting and Economics. He received his Juris Doctor, with concentrations in Employment and Securities Law, from Washington University in St Louis School of Law.. Although Joel lives in Washington, DC, he is a native Californian raised between Los Angeles and San Francisco. In his free time, he enjoys studying Greek and Roman philosophy and watching F-1 racing.

Joe has been representing both corporate and individual clients in civil litigation since he began practicing. Joe’s practice encompasses all phases of litigation, mediation and arbitration in both federal and state courts in the Mid-Atlantic region, and focuses on the defense of a variety of claims, including those arising in the areas of employment, construction, defamation, professional liability, contracts, premises liability, personal injury/liability, and insurance coverage matters.

Jim Tom Haynes practices with Haynes Novick Immigration in Washington, DC. Jim Tom has served as Legal Advisor to the Washington office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.  As Appellate Counsel for the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), he represented the legacy INS at the Board of Immigration Appeals. He served three terms as a Member of the AILA Board of Governors and as Co-Chair of the Immigration & Naturalization Committee of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association.

Jessica is a senior associate in the firm’s Washington, DC office, where she focuses her practice on insurance coverage disputes, commercial litigation, and bad faith litigation. Jessica represents some of the world’s largest insurance companies in all aspects of coverage disputes, ranging from providing clients with coverage analyses to defending cases involving property damage, builder’s risk, business interruption, and bad faith claims in federal and state courts and administrative agencies throughout the country. Jessica has experience with all levels of litigation and dispute resolution, including discovery, depositions, motion practice, oral argument, appraisal, and mediation.. Prior to joining Zelle, Jessica was an associate at a law firm in Baltimore, Maryland from 2016-2020, where she focused on insurance coverage and defense, subrogation, and first- and third-party liability. Jessica also clerked for the Honorable Theresa M. Adams in the Circuit Court for Frederick County, Maryland.. In her spare time, Jessica enjoys running, hiking, and kayaking. Jessica is a certified P1-P3 Krav Maga instructor and is currently training for a marathon.

Jerry D. Spitz is a Senior Partner at Ashcraft & Gerel who has been with the firm for nearly 20 years. Since joining the firm in 2000, he has represented thousands of injured individuals and their loved ones in complex personal injury cases. Based in Ashcraft & Gerel’s Washington, D.C. office, Mr. Spitz is admitted to practice in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.Mr. Spitz is an incredibly passionate legal advocate for those injured due to the negligent or wrongful actions of another. He has earned a well-deserved reputation—both among his clients and his peers—for tireless and persuasive representation. In one notable case, Mr. Spitz successfully represented an athlete who was struck by an automobile while inline skating. In this instance, Mr. Spitz fought back against the defense’s claims that his client was not severely injured, ultimately winning a favorable settlement on her behalf.

Jennifer Davison is a family law attorney and partner at Tucker PLLC who provides guidance to clients and families in Washington, DC, and Maryland. She handles all types of family law, matters including, divorce, asset division, child support, custody, alimony, prenuptial agreements and postnuptial agreements.. In her practice, Jennifer is particularly adept at helping clients identify and prioritize their goals. “I love receiving emails from clients six months or a year later saying, ‘I just wanted to let you know that I’m doing great and thank you for helping me through a really hard time,’” she says. “I’m just one stop on a client’s journey. And if I can point them North for the next stage, that’s what I enjoy most.”. Whether it’s navigating the immediate challenges of divorce or planning for the future Jennifer works to ensure that every client’s path forward is clear and achievable. She brings a blend of empathy and a no-nonsense approach to her practice, ensuring that her clients feel both heard and realistically guided through their legal journeys.. An attentive listener, Jennifer gathers data and information before formulating a strategy for each case. This approach allows her to provide tailored solutions to her clients’ unique situations, with a focus on long-term resolutions that benefit everyone involved.. Jennifer’s expertise includes divorce litigation, negotiation, mediation and Collaborative Divorce, with an emphasis on seeking out-of-court resolutions whenever possible. She has proven highly successful in finding a way to assist both parties in coming to agreement in even the most contentious cases. This approach is part of her commitment to empowering her clients to understand and actively participate in formulating solutions.. In her practice, Jennifer has developed particular expertise in navigating the financial elements of a case, helping clients get clear on their needs, including daily living expenses, career planning, retirement security and college funding. Her pragmatic and level-headed manner guides clients through difficult conversations, focusing on helping them make the right decisions for the best outcomes. “A client can call me charged up emotionally, and usually, we can find our way through the conversation with concrete steps. My approach is not to create drama but to navigate it.”

JENNIFER DAVIDSON is an associate at Outten & Golden LLP in Washington, D.C. where she is a member of the Class Action and Individual Practice Groups. Prior to joining the firm in 2021, Ms. Davidson was a fellow at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll LLP, where she worked on a wide range of class action litigations, including employment discrimination, harassment, and wage and hour cases. She also clerked for the Honorable Gregg Costa on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Honorable Wendy Beetlestone on the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Ms. Davidson received her A.B., summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College, and her J.D., Order of the Coif, from the University of Virginia, where she was a Hardy Cross Dillard Scholar. During law school, Ms. Davidson participated in UVA’s Housing Clinic and Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, was a Law and Public Service Fellow, and served as Articles Development Editor for the Virginia Law Review. Additionally, Ms. Davidson was a summer associate at Altshuler Berzon LLP, where she worked on union, employment, and civil rights cases.

Jeff Ifrah's legal skills and record of success have earned him international recognition as a white-collar criminal defense lawyer and litigator. He is an advocate keenly focused on delivering results for his clients - on understanding the problems they face and developing innovative strategies to resolve them.. Ifrah Law’s practice areas include e-commerce, online data privacy laws, igaming defense, internet advertising and marketing defense, online piracy defense, financial services defense, government contractor defense, & healthcare company defense.

Jay P Mykytiuk is an experienced trial attorney who primarily represents defendants charged with criminal and traffic offenses in state and federal courts in Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia. He was trained in criminal trial defense at the Arlington County Public Defender’s Office, where he handled hundreds of criminal and traffic misdemeanors and felonies from reckless driving to attempted murder. He wrote several criminal appeals and successfully overturned a multi-count embezzlement conviction.. After leaving the Public Defender’s Office, Jay joined the law firm of Regan Associates, Chartered, where he continued to practice criminal defense along with family law and immigration.. Jay is a graduate of Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, California, where he was Chair of the Moot Court Program and a member of the school’s law journal. His published article regarding the US and Canadian responses to the 9/11 terrorist attacks has been quoted extensively. During law school, Jay clerked with The Cochran Firm and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.. Jay Mykytiuk is a member of the Criminal Justice Act Panel for both the D.C. Superior Court and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He continues to represent clients in Northern Virginia and the District of Columbia in criminal, immigration, and family law matters.

Jason Zuckerman represents employees in a wide variety of workplace-related disputes, including whistleblower retaliation, harassment, qui tam, wrongful discharge, discrimination, non-compete, and other employment-related claims.  His broad experience includes practicing employment law at a national law firm, serving as a Principal at The Employment Law Group, and serving as Senior Legal Advisor to the Special Counsel at the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, the federal agency charged with protecting whistleblowers in the federal government. In 2012, the Secretary of Labor appointed Zuckerman to serve on the Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee, which makes recommendations to the Secretary of Labor to improve OSHA’s administration of federal whistleblower protections.. Zuckerman is rated 10 out of 10 by Avvo, based largely on client reviews, and rated AV Preeminent® by Martindale-Hubbell based on peer reviews.  He was recognized by Washingtonian magazine as a “Top Whistleblower Lawyer” in 2007 and 2009, selected by his peers to be included in The Best Lawyers in America® in the category of employment law (2011-2014), and selected by his peers to be listed in SuperLawyers (2012 and 2015) in the category of labor and employment law. He has lectured extensively on whistleblower law and employment law, especially on Dodd-Frank, Sarbanes-Oxley and False Claims Act actions, and has written several articles on whistleblower protections. Zuckerman co-authored a chapter on litigating whistleblower cases for Whistleblowing: The Law of Retaliatory Discharge, drafted a chapter on the D.C. Whistleblower Protection Act for the D.C. Practice Manual, and is a contributing author of International Handbook on Whistleblowing Research. For nearly a decade, Zuckerman has been a contributing author to an annual update on the whistleblower protection provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act published by the ABA Fair Labor Standards Legislation Committee. Zuckerman’s articles have been cited in various treatises and in a federal court opinion on the scope of Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower protection. Zuckerman has trained administrative law judges, agency EEO directors, senior OIG officials and delegations from more than 30 countries on federal whistleblower protections.. In addition to shaping whistleblower protection law through successful outcomes for clients, Zuckerman has worked with whistleblower advocates to draft and lobby for passage of whistleblower protection laws, and advocate for more effective and vigorous enforcement of whistleblower protection laws. Zuckerman drafted portions of the 2009 amendments to the D.C. Whistleblower Protection Act, which is now the strongest public sector whistleblower protection statute at the state level, and testified at a hearing about those amendments. Zuckerman’s recommendations for improving OSHA’s Whistleblower Protection Program are cited in Congressional hearing testimony and a top-to-bottom review of the program, and comments that he co-authored are cited in final regulations implementing the whistleblower protection provisions of the Energy Reorganization Act and six environmental statutes. He also led a coalition of whistleblower advocates in meetings with the SEC Chairman, two other Commissioners and senior SEC staff to offer the whistleblower perspective on proposed regulations implementing the whistleblower reward provision of the Dodd-Frank Act. Zuckerman has drafted amicus curiae briefs in leading whistleblower retaliation cases, including Powers v. Union Pacific Railroad, Johnson v. Siemens, Bonds v. Leavitt, and Welch v. Chao, and his advice on whistleblower protections is cited in Financial Statement Fraud: Prevention and Detection and Nonprofit Financial Management: A Practical Guide.. Zuckerman serves as Co-Chair of the Whistleblower Subcommittee of the ABA Labor and Employment Section’s Employee Rights and Responsibilities Committee and served as Co-Chair of the National Employment Lawyers Association’s Whistleblower Committee, Co-Chair of the Sarbanes-Oxley Subcommittee of the ABA Labor and Employment Fair Labor Standards Legislation Committee, Co-Chair of the Whistleblower Committee of the District of Columbia Bar’s Labor and Employment Section, and member of Law 360’s Employment Editorial Advisory Board.. Zuckerman graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Georgetown University and received his law degree from the University of Virginia, where he served as Articles Editor of the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology. In law school, he received the University of Virginia School of Law’s Pro Bono Award for his advocacy on behalf of prison inmates and mentally disabled individuals and helped establish a successful pro bono program that encourages students to volunteer a minimum of 150 hours of pro bono service during law school.

Jason Rathod litigates class actions across the firm’s areas of practice, including consumer protection, worker rights, and civil rights. He has been the primary author of motions and briefs in support of class certification, which have been granted, leading to Mr. Rathod’s appointment as class counsel.. Mr. Rathod graduated from Grinnell College in 2006 (B.A. with honors in Political Science and Religious Studies). After college, he traveled to Fiji, Mauritius, South Africa, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, and Suriname on a Watson Fellowship, studying the Indian Diaspora. He attended law school at the Duke University School of Law in 2010, where he was an Articles Editor of the Duke Law Journal. In law school, he also worked for the Self-Employed Women’s Association in Ahmedabad, India on behalf of street vendors seeking an injunction against the city government for unlawful harassment and evictions.. Mr. Rathod is the author of several published works, including a law review note on racial discrimination in the federal security clearance process, and law review articles on the Voting Rights Act and aggregate litigation in poor countries. He also has as a forthcoming, co-authored work on public and private enforcement in the United State and Europe. He is admitted to practice in Illinois and Washington D.C.

Jason H. Ehrenberg is a skilled trial and appellate litigator with years of courtroom experience and a nationwide litigation and counseling practice.. Mr. Ehrenberg regularly litigates claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”). This includes defending claims for breaches of fiduciary duties, pension benefits, long term disability benefits, and ERISA withdrawal liability, among others. Mr. Ehrenberg also routinely advises pension plan sponsors, administrative committees, trustees and other plan fiduciaries with regard to their fiduciary obligations under ERISA. He has been selected for inclusion in Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers in the areas of Employee Benefits/ERISA and ERISA Litigation every year since 2012. Mr. Ehrenberg is a member of the American Bar Association Joint Committee on Employee Benefits. He is a regular contributing editor and chapter author of the Employee Benefits Law and ERISA Litigation treatises. He regularly authors articles and speaks on issues arising under ERISA.. Mr. Ehrenberg also has considerable experience in military administrative and criminal proceedings. Most recently, he successfully defended four separate sexual assault cases involving midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy, including the high profile “Naval Academy Football Case.” He has been widely quoted on military justice matters in publications such as the Washington Post and New York Times and has appeared on television programs such as the CBS Morning News to discuss his views on the problems with the military’s handling of sexual assault cases.. Mr. Ehrenberg has significant experience in appellate litigation, having recently handled ERISA and employment matters in the United States Courts of Appeals for the Third, Fourth, Ninth and District of Columbia Circuits.. Mr. Ehrenberg also maintains a nationwide Higher Education Law practice, and regularly counsels university administrators, professors and graduate students with regard to all aspects of their relationships with institutes of higher education. He regularly appears on the American Association of University Professors list of recommended attorneys.

Jarrett S. Taubman is counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins, where he represents providers of telecommunications, media, Internet and other communications services (and their investors) before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), state public utilities commissions and various courts. Mr. Taubman assists clients in implementing strategies to facilitate the development of favorable regulatory policy, structuring transactions and securing required regulatory consents, and ensuring ongoing compliance with complex regulatory requirements. Much of his practice involves the navigation of the complex legal and policy issues raised by the advent of broadband services. Mr. Taubman also represents both communications and non-communications clients before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a multi-agency group with the statutory authority to review and block proposed US investments by non-US sources, and the Defense Security Service.

Jared Genser is Managing Director of Perseus Strategies, a law and consulting firm that focuses on human rights, humanitarian, and corporate social responsibility projects.  He is also founder of Freedom Now, a non-governmental organization that works to free prisoners of conscience worldwide.  Previously, Genser was a partner in the government affairs practice of DLA Piper LLP and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company.  He has taught semester-long seminars about the UN Security Council at Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Michigan and University of Pennsylvania law schools.  His pro bono clients have included former Czech Republic President Václav Havel and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Aung San Suu Kyi, Liu Xiaobo, Desmond Tutu, and Elie Wiesel.  Genser holds a B.S. from Cornell University, an M.P.P. from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was an Alumni Public Service Fellow, and a J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School.  He is author of The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Commentary and Guide to Practice (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2014).  In addition, he is co-editor of The UN Security Council in the Age of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2014) and The Responsibility to Protect: The Promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities in Our Times (Oxford University Press, 2011).  Genser is a board member of Ennaid Therapeutics, an innovative biotechnology company which brings cures to incurable diseases.  He is the recipient of the American Bar Association’s International Human Rights Award, Liberty in North Korea’s Freedom Fighter Award, and the Charles Bronfman Prize.  He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.