Jeannie S. Rhee⏐Partner

Jeannie Rhee is a deeply experienced, battle-tested crisis manager and litigation strategist who has helped numerous Fortune 100 clients safely navigate their most significant civil, white-collar, and regulatory exposure. 

A longtime former federal prosecutor with significant first-chair trial experience, Jeannie has stood on both sides of the courtroom and has forged a successful path everywhere she’s been. She provides strategic counsel to boards, senior executives, and general counsel on their most sensitive, challenging issues and multifaceted crises, bringing a cross-disciplinary, commercial approach. Her practice is forward-looking, with a focus on understanding her client’s objective, achieving that objective, and mitigating future risks. Jeannie’s “passion is delivering for her clients, each and every time,” clients note in Chambers and Partners. “Her ability to quickly assess the issues and marshal her network, and her amazing intellect in service of her clients, make her an amazing attorney.”

She served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel between 2009 and 2011. Earlier, as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia between 2000 and 2006, Jeannie handled more than 30 jury and bench trials involving public corruption, healthcare fraud, and national security violations, and was lead counsel in a groundbreaking congressional corruption investigation. Between 2017 to 2019, Jeannie served as a Senior Deputy in the Mueller Special Counsel Investigation, leading the office’s largest teams investigating foreign cyber and social media interference in the U.S. Presidential Election. 

Jeannie has been consistently recognized for her significant achievements in the law. She has been repeatedly named one of the Top 250 Women in Litigation by Benchmark Litigation (2020-2024); a “South Trailblazer” by The American Lawyer (2022); one of the 500 Leading Litigators in America and one of the 500 Leading Global Cyber Lawyers by Lawdragon (2024 and 2025); as a leading lawyer by Chambers and Partners in Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (District of Columbia) category (2021-2025); as a finalist for “White Collar Crime Lawyer of the Year” by Euromoney’s Women in Business Law (2024); and on Cybersecurity Docket’s 2024 “Incident Response 50” list of the industry’s top data breach response lawyers.

Jeannie has also devoted herself throughout her career to upholding the principles of the rule of law and transforming the profession through diversity and inclusion. She received the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Award in 2021 and was named “Woman Lawyer of the Year” by the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia in 2020. She has served on the Boards of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, the Women’s Bar Association, D.C. Circuit Historical Society, and the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center.