Jamila M. Hall is Associate General Counsel of Litigation at Airbnb. Previously, she was a partner in the Investigations and White Collar Defense group at Jones Day, resident in the firm’s Atlanta office. Jamila served as defense and investigative counsel to Fortune 500 companies and regularly conducted internal investigations throughout the world. She defended companies and individuals in often high-stakes civil and criminal investigations brought by the United States Department of Justice and other government agencies related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute, the False Claims Act, securities fraud, and financial fraud. Jamila also counseled companies on compliance and internal controls policies. In 2019, Jamila was elected by the partnership to serve on the firm’s Advisory Committee. In the Atlanta office, Jamila was Chair of the Diversity Committee and a member of the Hiring Committee.
From 2007 to 2011, Jamila served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, in the Economic Crimes division, where she tried numerous multi-defendant white collar crime jury trials to verdict and successfully prosecuted more than 100 financial fraud cases.
Jamila has been recognized as a leader in white collar defense. She is ranked by Chambers USA for White Collar Crime & Government Investigations and has been named to the Who's Who Legal: Business Crime Defense list by Global Investigations Review. In 2018 Global Investigations Review named Jamila to its “100 “Women in Investigations” list. In 2017, Jamila was honored as “Law and Justice: Woman of the Year” by Women Works Media Group, “Who’s Who in Black Atlanta,” “Women to Watch” and “40 Under 40” by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Jamila lectures frequently on topics related to white collar crime, corporate compliance, and ethics and is a member of the faculty for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, the American Bar Association’s National White Collar Crime Institute, the Southeastern White Collar Crime Institute, and the Georgia Health Care Fraud Institute.
Jamila is a member of the Criminal Justice Act panel and is routinely appointed by the district court to represent indigent defendants in federal fraud matters. She is the immediate past Vice Chair (East Coast) and Atlanta Chapter Lead for the Women's White Collar Defense Association and has served two terms as the chair of the Criminal Law Section of the Atlanta Bar Association. Jamila is a past president of the Leadership Institute of Women of Color Attorneys and a member of Leadership Atlanta, Class of 2017. She is a trustee for the Woodruff Arts Center, on the board of the Piedmont Park Conservancy, on the advisory board for Atlanta Legal Aid, a member of the Women’s Solidarity Society for the National Center for Civil & Human Rights, and a member of the Atlanta Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc.
Jamila, a child of Jamaican immigrants, was born and raised in New York. She attended the University of Maryland, where she received her B.A. in Government and Politics, graduating in 2000, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. In 2003, Jamila received her J.D. from Columbia Law School. At Columbia, Jamila was a senior editor of the Columbia Law Review, a member of the Student Senate, and the Regional Representative for the Black Law Student’s Association. Jamila was a recipient of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and the Tony Patiño Fellowship. Jamila lives in Atlanta, GA. In her free time, Jamila enjoys international travel, the arts, yoga, and spending time with her family.
