Johanna Hudgens

Practice Areas

Johanna counsels individuals and multinational clients in complex commercial, antitrust, and white-collar matters, whether it is working with them to avoid or resolve government intervention, or representing them in civil litigations on either the plaintiff’s or defendant’s side. Johanna’s dedication to client goals is enhanced by her focus on their business realities. Her experience as a judicial clerk in the Eastern District of New York offers clients behind-the-scenes insight into the judicial process and potential outcomes.

Johanna focuses her practice on government antitrust and white-collar investigations, complex commercial litigation, and compliance program counseling. She has experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in complex and multidistrict litigation involving issues of monopolization, conspiracy, contract and warranty disputes, products liability, FCPA, corporate and executive liability, and the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property. In addition to representing businesses across the financial services, food and beverage, and technologies industries, Johanna represents individual clients across the United States in investigations and criminal matters involving white-collar and antitrust issues.

Johanna also counsels multinational clients on a range of legal issues and advises clients in developing comprehensive compliance programs attuned to the risks represented in their industries and jurisdictions. She combines her cross-practice experience in matters with government touchpoints with an intimate understanding of client industries to achieve practical, business-forward outcomes in both civil and criminal matters.

Johanna is committed to both pro bono representation and public service, making it an integral part of her practice. Her pro bono representations include representing individuals at Riker’s Island who are alleging religious discrimination; a victim of human trafficking in connection with a criminal investigation and restitution proceedings; disabled recipients of Medicaid-funded home care services in a class action alleging violation of state and federal law; and student plaintiffs in a civil lawsuit against their university, leading to a landmark settlement on the eve of trial. In addition to her active pro bono practice, Johanna also serves as a mentor and coach for high school domestic and international moot court competitions in conjunction with the Justice Resource Center.