Jenna Dabbs

Practice Areas

Congressional Investigations; Cryptocurrency; Employment, Discrimination and Sexual Misconduct; FCPA and Anti-Corruption; Investigations and Crisis Management; Public Interest Litigation; Regulatory Enforcement and Litigation; Securities Enforcement and Litigation; Trials; White Collar Criminal Defense

Career

Jenna Dabbs is a partner at Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP. She is an experienced trial and appellate lawyer whose practice focuses on government and internal investigations, white collar criminal defense, complex civil litigation and regulatory compliance. She is a former federal prosecutor with extensive trial and investigative experience in both the public and private sectors.

Jenna draws on that experience to represent individuals and corporations in internal investigations and in a wide variety of government and regulatory investigations by the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, FINRA and other regulatory agencies. Among other things, those investigations involve securities and corporate fraud, insider trading, market manipulation, money laundering, tax fraud, prescription drug diversion and public corruption. She also represents individuals and corporations in complex contract and employment disputes and other crisis situations. Her clients include a Fortune 500 government contractor, a large mutual insurance company, global financial institutions, a prominent global consulting firm, and several private equity and investment management firms. She also represents executives and directors of large financial institutions; pharmaceutical, logistics, and industrial conglomerates; and other companies.

Jenna previously served as a former Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York from 2006 to 2014. During her tenure as a federal prosecutor, Jenna served as the Chief of the Narcotics Unit for two years and was a member of the Securities and Commodities Task Force and the Terrorism and International Narcotics Unit. She has directed and supervised hundreds of investigations across a wide array of matters and has briefed and argued numerous criminal appeals before the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Jenna has received extensive acclaim for her work. Chambers has ranked Jenna as one of New York’s top litigators in white-collar crime and government investigations. She was named to Global Investigations Review 2021 Women in Investigations survey, which honors “remarkable women… achieving great things in a competitive and notoriously tough area of law.” Jenna was also named a Leading Plaintiff Employment & Civil Rights Lawyer by Lawdragon 500 in 2021 and 2022. Benchmark Litigation also recognized Jenna as a “Future Star” and Crain’s New York Business named her one of its 2021 “Most Notable Women in Law.”

Alongside Jenna’s commercial litigation practice, she is also committed to pursuing pro bono matters that advance the public interest. Jenna serves as appointed counsel for indigent defendants charged in the Southern District of New York pursuant to the Criminal Justice Act. She is the Chair of the New York City Bar’s White-Collar Committee and is on the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Society and the Board of Trustees of the Caedmon School.

Education