Jennifer Michele Siegel

Jennifer Siegel is a Senior Litigation Counsel in the NY office who works on both qui tam/whistleblower cases and on gender discrimination cases. She received her law degree from Harvard Law School in 2011.

Ms. Siegel represents clients in qui tam suits under the U.S. False Claims Act, as well in discrimination suits and other public interest matters. Most recently, in the case of United States of America ex rel. Ohlmeyer v. City of New York (E.D.N.Y.), she successfully represented a whistleblower who revealed that the City of New York Department of Education had submitted false claims for special education services.

Ms. Siegel currently serves as counsel in United States of America et al. ex rel. Raffington v. Bon Secours New York Health System, Inc. et al. (S.D.N.Y. 1:10-cv-09650), a case alleging unlawful billing fraud by a home healthcare company that provided nursing services to elderly and homebound patients in the Bronx and Westchester.

Ms. Siegel is licensed to practice law in New York and New Jersey.

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While at Harvard Law School, Ms. Siegel served as an editor of the Journal on Legislation and as a research assistant to Dean Martha Minow. As research assistant to the dean, she compiled and analyzed social science research for a book about the evolution of education policy in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education.

Prior to law school, Ms. Siegel was a political correspondent for the Forward newspaper and has seen her reporting and commentary featured on CNN, NPR, and in the pages of national publications. Ms. Siegel also has worked as an advocate for sustainable transportation and land-use policy in the New York metropolitan area and led campaigns on environmental issues in Missouri, North Carolina, and Florida.