Jennifer Hurley McGay represents individuals and companies in both small and large complex commercial disputes in state and federal courts, as well as in bankruptcy proceedings. Jennifer has experience litigating cases involving a broad spectrum of substantive issues, including business torts, class actions, contract, bankruptcy, securities law, intellectual property, and corporate issues. Her practice includes litigation involving structured products, such as CDOs, asset-backed securities and swaps. Jennifer has also litigated international conflicts of law issues and complex privilege disputes. The clients in these cases have been both plaintiffs and defendants engaged in a wide variety of industries, including financial services, oil and gas, cable and media, sporting goods, telecommunications, electronics, insurance, information technology, and cash management and financial technology. Jennifer handles matters during all phases of litigation through trial, appeal, and settlement. She also regularly counsels clients in ways to avoid or minimize litigation risks and is well versed in various forms of alternative dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation.

Jennifer has been published in the New York Law Journal on issues involving the attorney client privilege and work product doctrine, rules of evidence and securities laws. From 2015-2017, Jennifer was a panel speaker for the Practicing Law Institute’s “Specialized Deposition Techniques” program. She was also a panel speaker in 2017 for Strafford’s “Rule 30(b)(6) Depositions in Class Action Litigation: Deposing or Defending Corporate Witness Depositions” program.

Jennifer received her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Toledo College of Law, where she served as an Editor of the Law Review and was admitted to the Order of the Coif. She received her B.A. from the State University of New York at Albany. Jennifer served as a judicial law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut during 1996-1998. Following her clerkship, Jennifer practiced law in New York City for approximately twenty years, most recently at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, before joining Lewis Johs. 

Jennifer is admitted to practice in the States of New York and Ohio, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. She is a member of Federal Bar Association, American Bar Association, Suffolk Bar Association and Financial Women’s Association.