Carleigh Zeman is an associate in the Litigation Department of Morrison Foerster’s Tokyo office.

Carleigh focuses her practice on assisting in the representation of corporations, executives, public officials, and individuals in internal investigations, government-facing investigations, compliance counseling, and commercial and securities litigation. She has experience in matters involving alleged Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations, public corruption and domestic bribery, obstructions of justice, securities fraud, and other white-collar matters. Carleigh also has an active pro bono practice focusing on reproductive rights.

Carleigh Zeman is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law, with Honors, where she was the executive editor of North Carolina Journal of International Law. Carleigh was a summer associate at Morrison Foerster’s Tokyo office.

She received her B.A. in political science and religious studies cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

Representative Matters

Internal and Government-Facing Investigations

• Representation of a global pharmacetical company conducting multilingual internal investigations of FCPA-related concerns related to its APAC business.
• Representation of the California Attorney General’s Office in conducting an independent review of its release of certain personal identifying information contained in its firearms database, which involved issuing public findings and recommending employment actions and other remedial measures.
• Representation of a global company in conducting an internal investigation and in connection with a DOJ investigation into potential political favoritism in the awarding of a government contract worth more than $100 million.
• Representation of a government contracting technology company in conducting an investigation of government contract integrity issues, including representing the company in government investigations and making remedial recommendations.
• Representation of an online marketplace in connection with the detection and prevention of the sale of certain items under state law and in a related Attorney General’s Office inquiry.
• Representation of an executive in a DOJ-led FCPA investigation involving allegations of bribery in Latin America.

Commercial and Securities Litigation

• Representation of a pharmaceutical company in an action brought by securityholders in relation to a medical product which failed to perform as expected. 
• Representation of BlackBerry and its former officers in a securities class action related to BlackBerry’s accounting for its sales of BlackBerry 10 devices. Carleigh was part of the trial team that prepped the case for trial. The case settled days before trial was set to begin.
• Represented a healthcare corporation in commercial litigation in multiple state court actions involving allegations of underpayment for the provision of out-of-network services.

Pro Bono Representations

• Serving as pro bono counsel alongside the Center for Reproductive Rights, representing pregnant patients in Tennessee who were denied lifesaving abortion care under Tennessee’s restrictive abortion laws seeking injunctive and declaratory relief to allow medical providers to provide lifesaving abortions without fear of persecution under Tennessee’s abortion ban.
• Served as pro bono counsel alongside the Center for Reproductive Rights, representing abortion clinics in Texas seeking injunctive and declaratory relief to allow patients to continue receiving life-saving reproductive care in the interim between the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the implementation of Texas’s anti-abortion “trigger” ban.
• Representation of a pro bono client alongside the Legal Aid Society in section 1983 litigation against New York state prison employees involving allegations that the individual received inadequate mental health treatment while imprisoned and was placed in solitary confinement in violation of New York state law.