Practice Areas
Jonice Gray is a partner and Chair of the Consumer Financial Services practice at Paul Hastings. She specializes in work with banks, non-bank financial institutions, and other companies providing financial products and services. She works with many of the largest bank and non-bank financial institutions, fintechs and retailers. Her work is focused on high-stakes legal proceedings, including investigation and examination matters initiated by federal and state agencies such as the OCC, FDIC, FRB, FTC, and DOJ as well as State Attorneys General and State Department of Banking and Finance. She also handles private civil litigation, conducts internal investigations and counsels clients on compliance with consumer protection laws. She routinely provides strategic advice to senior corporate leaders, including Boards of Directors, as they navigate complex, and often unexpected, business and legal challenges.
Career
Ms. Gray previously practiced with Skadden Arps. She later became of a founding partner and governing board member with Buckley LLP, which recently merged with Orrick. She began her career as a judicial law clerk in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.
Professional Memberships
• Former Chair, American Bar Association - Banking Law Committee
• Business Law Section Council, American Bar Association
• Executive Council, Federal Bar Association Banking Law Section
• Banking Editorial Board Member, Law360
• Regent, The American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers
• Executive Committee, Board of Directors, Legal Aid Society of D.C.
• Advisory Board, Ron Brown Scholars Program
• Member, Exchequer Club of Washington, D.C.
