Jessi also helps companies implement cybersecurity and data privacy assessments, including the creation of incident response plans. She provides incident response services, including handling some of the largest and most complex data breaches involving millions of consumer records. She also represents companies in various complex litigation, class actions and government investigations, including dozens of class actions resulting from data breach incidents.

Jessi maintains an active pro bono practice, focusing on obtaining asylum for unaccompanied children. In addition, she has represented pro bono clients in mortgage fraud cases and worked with the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking to obtain T-visas for victims of human trafficking. Prior to attending law school, Jessi was a Los Angeles corps member of Teach For America, a national program in which recent college graduates commit to teach for two years in low-income schools.

Jessi regularly speaks on data privacy and protection, and cyber-related issues, including international data privacy frameworks.

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• Represented a consumer credit reporting agency responding to a multistate Attorney General consumer protection investigation by 31 states into the credit reporting industry*
• Represented a consumer credit reporting agency in connection with a New York Attorney General consumer protection investigation into the credit reporting industry*
• Represented a stock transfer and shareholder recordkeeping services company in its capacity as indenture trustee for various series of senior unsecured notes issued by a travel commerce platform, and successfully resolved litigation arising out of a transaction, including claims for fraudulent transfer brought by the client on behalf of all senior noteholders in connection with such transaction*
• Represented the fifth largest health system in the nation, in its acquisition of the largest independent operator of occupational medicine and urgent care centers in the US*

*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott.

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Courts / Agencies
US District Court for the Central District of California
US District Court for the Northern District of California
US District Court for the Eastern District of California

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