• Jack A. Herman handles complex litigation matters, including securities class action and shareholder derivative suits, bankruptcy and debtor-creditor disputes, and other complex commercial litigation. Jack is involved in all phases of these cases, and his work includes drafting motions, briefs and other filings; preparing for fact and expert witness testimony; and managing large-scale discovery review and production.

    Jack was previously an associate in the New York office of an international law firm.

    Experience

    • Briefed a successful motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging breaches of fiduciary duty relating to a CEO’s employment agreement.

    • Represented an administrative agent challenging a $2 billion debt-for-debt exchange as violative of the operative credit agreement.  

    • Represented one of the nation’s largest publicly traded hospital companies and its directors and officers against federal and state securities fraud claims arising from a 2016 spin-off transaction.

    • Defended a hospital system in a putative class action seeking more than $1 billion in damages, based on alleged misleading statements about hospital billing practices.

    • Defending the senior leadership of a large consulting firm against RICO claims brought by a market competitor in federal court.

    • Defending an asset-management firm and its executives against fraudulent transfer and fiduciary duty claims in bankruptcy court.

    Credentials

    Education

    • J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2012
      • Order of the Coif
      • Notes Editor, Virginia Law Review
    • B.B.A., with high distinction, University of Michigan, 2008
      • Phi Beta Kappa

    Bar Admissions

    • District of Columbia, 2016
    • New York, 2013

    Clerkships

    • Honorable Mary Beck Briscoe, U.S.C.A., 10th Circuit