JACKIE PRUITT focuses her practice on white collar criminal matters, internal investigations, government enforcement actions, professional liability matters, compliance counseling, and litigation, including matters involving challenging accounting and financial issues. Jackie graduated from the University of Chicago Law School and holds a Master in Professional Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a licensed Certified Public Accountant and Certified Fraud Examiner, and has been profiled in Fraud Magazine.
Jackie has extensive experience conducting complex domestic and international internal investigations on a variety of matters, including but not limited to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), accounting fraud, domestic bribery, healthcare fraud, anti-money laundering, securities regulations, and other employee misconduct. She represents clients before law enforcement and regulatory agencies, including the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), state attorneys general, and other federal and state regulators.
In addition, Jackie has a robust compliance counseling practice and regularly assists clients in evaluating, designing, and implementing global compliance programs, including policies, procedures, and internal controls. Further, she has substantial experience conducting anti-corruption due diligence in the business transaction context and routinely advises clients on anti-corruption and other compliance-related contractual provisions.
Jackie maintains an active pro bono practice, including civil rights and federal criminal matters, and the firm’s Capital Litigation Project and Political Asylum and Immigrants’ Rights Project. Jackie is a recipient of the firm’s Thomas H. Morsch Award for Pro Bono Achievement in connection with her work on a capital litigation matter and also received an award from Chicago Volunteer Legal Services in connection with her victory on behalf of a CVLS-referred client in a landlord/tenant dispute. She is an administrator of the firm-sponsored brief bank for the Appleseed Project/Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition partnership and is a past member of the Committee overseeing the firm’s adoption of the Kanoon Magnet School.
Jackie is also actively engaged in the civic, legal, and professional communities at large. Among other organizations, she is a member of the Women’s White Collar Defense Association, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and the American Bar Association, and was previously a member of the Hispanic National Bar Association. She serves on the Ambassadors Board of Uniting Voices Chicago (formerly the Chicago Children’s Choir) and previously served on the Young Professionals Board of the Better Government Association and as a volunteer income tax preparer through Ladder Up.