
Jamila Hall elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation
Jamila Hall, a partner in Jones Day's Investigations & White Collar Defense Practice resident in the Atlanta Office, has been elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Membership in the Fellows is limited to one percent of lawyers licensed to practice in each jurisdiction. Fellows are recommended by their peers and elected by the Board of the American Bar Foundation.
The American Bar Foundation is a global honorary society that recognizes attorneys, judges, law faculty, and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession and to the welfare of their communities.
Ms. Hall serves as defense and investigative counsel to Fortune 500 companies and regularly conducts internal investigations throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. She defends companies and individuals in often high-stakes civil and criminal investigations brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and other government agencies. She is a graduate of Columbia University and the University of Maryland.
Ms. Hall serves as the vice chair of the Women's White Collar Defense Association and has served two terms as the chair of the Criminal Law Section of the Atlanta Bar Association. She is the immediate past president of the Leadership Institute of Women of Color Attorneys and a member of Leadership Atlanta, Class of 2017. She is a trustee for the Woodruff Arts Center, on the board of the Piedmont Park Conservancy, and on the advisory board for Atlanta Legal Aid.