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S. Jeanine Conley

Jeanine Conley, the Hiring Partner for summer and fall recruitment for the firm’s New York Office and a member of the firm’s litigation group, focuses her practice in the areas of employment litigation, white collar defense and corporate investigations and complex commercial litigation. Clients call on Ms. Conley to effectively and efficiently resolve complex, and often sensitive, employment-related issues and government investigations. She counsels clients on a range of employment, compliance and regulatory issues and has represented clients in employment and commercial disputes before state and federal courts and agencies, including the United States Department of Justice, United States Attorneys’ Offices, the New York State Attorney General’s Office, SEC, EEOC and the New York State Division of Human Rights. Ms. Conley has advised companies, as well as their officers, directors and employees, on a variety of employment and white collar matters, including discrimination based on age, gender, race and disability, harassment, wage and hour claims, whistleblower actions, accounting fraud, insider trading, counterfeiting, money laundering, kickbacks and off-label marketing. She also assists clients with corporate policy matters and internal trainings and investigations. In addition, Ms. Conley maintains an active pro bono practice involving immigration, criminal and landlord/tenant issues.

Since 2009, Ms. Conley has been a member of the Baker Hostetler team that serves as Counsel to the SIPA Trustee for the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, working on the global investigation of the Ponzi scheme—the largest financial fraud in history—and related litigations seeking recoveries for the Customer Fund.

Before joining Baker Hostetler, Ms. Conley clerked for the Honorable William G. Bassler in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Prior to her clerkship, Ms. Conley worked at the law firm of Arnold & Porter LLP, where she engaged in a broad-based litigation practice in substantive areas, including commercial, products liability, securities and white collar crime litigation.

Ms. Conley posted an article on Baker Hostetler’s Class Action Lawsuit Defense Blog in March 2012, entitled “Seventh Circuit Upholds Lower Court Decision Denying Class Certification in Gender-Based Pay Discrimination Case.”

Representative Matters

• Won full defense verdict in an employment discrimination and hostile work environment case tried to a jury in the Eastern District of New York;
• Obtained summary judgment on complaint alleging Title VII gender discrimination and Age Discrimination in Employment Act violation;
• Trained employees on the Family and Medical Leave Act and Title VII harassment laws;
• Secured favorable settlement for employer after employee claimed he was discriminated against due to a significant illness;
• Obtained victory after bench trial for FORTUNE 500 company sued for breach of warranty;
• Successfully represented employees involved in off-label marketing and antikickback U.S. Attorney investigation and related whistleblower action;
• Obtained favorable result for FORTUNE 50 company involved in New York State Attorney General insurance-industry probe; and
• Won ruling that executor of estate breached his fiduciary duty to client in New York State bench trial.

Professional and Civic Activities

Ms. Conley serves as President of the Association of Black Women Attorneys, Chair of the New York City Bar’s Committee on Minorities in the Profession and delegate to the New York State Bar House of Delegates. She is on the board of various nonprofit organizations, including Early Stages, which fosters literacy through the arts, and the New York County Lawyers Association. She is a member of the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section of the New York State Bar Association, the National Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Advisory Board of the Urban Assembly School for Criminal Justice and the Board of Legal Advisors of Legal Momentum. She is a former fellow of the Council of Urban Professionals.