Jocelyn Greer is a member of Morrison Foerster's litigation practice. Her experience focuses on complex commercial litigation, including securities litigation, investigations, and transactional disputes. Jocelyn handles securities fraud claims at all stages of litigation, government investigations, and extensive and varied pro bono work.
Jocelyn has extensive litigation experience in federal and state courts and with federal agencies. Jocelyn has played a first-chair role in litigating cases from discovery to trial in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. She also recently managed a team representing a client in a SEC accounting fraud investigation that resulted in no charges. In addition, she has researched and drafted numerous successful filings, including several motions to dismiss securities and fraud claims, temporary restraining orders to halt the misappropriation of clients’ property, and complaints and arbitration demands alleging fraud, breach of contract and trademark infringement.
Jocelyn is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where she served as Staff Editor for the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and as a member of the Black Law Students Association. She also provided legal assistance to incarcerated clients suffering from civil rights violations as part of a Columbia Law School clinic: “Challenging the Consequences of Mass Incarceration.”
In addition to her litigation and investigations practice, Jocelyn is committed to pro bono service, including drafting Amicus Curiae briefs concerning the deportation of immigrants living with HIV, white papers on healthcare rights of youth in foster care and detention systems on the East Coast, and soliciting community input for a report on the Los Angeles Police Department’s use of body cameras.
Before joining Morrison Foerster, Jocelyn was a litigation associate in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.
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