Jessica Hagen joined King & Spalding in August 2003 as counsel with the Special Matters & Government Investigations Practice Group. Her practice focuses on white-collar criminal defense, internal corporate investigations, False Claims Act cases, and defense of regulatory enforcement actions.
Previously, Ms. Hagen was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Middle District of Georgia. While at the U.S. Attorney's Office she served as the General Crimes Prosecutor for the Athens Division, handling all the non-drug prosecutions for ten counties, including prosecutions for bank fraud, wire and mail fraud, money laundering, bank robbery and gun crimes. During her eight years with the U.S. Attorney's Office, Ms. Hagen tried more than seventeen cases including a number of multi-defendant conspiracy cases. In addition, she served as the Appellate Attorney for the office and was responsible for reviewing and approving all appeals filed in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as delivering a number of oral arguments before the Court. Prior to working with the U.S. Attorney's office, Ms. Hagen was engaged in private practice of law in Atlanta for three years and, prior to that, for two years in Los Angeles.
From 1988-1989, Ms. Hagen was a law clerk to the Honorable Gerald Bard Tjoflat, Judge, Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Ms. Hagen is a member of the bar in Georgia, California, Washington, D.C. and New York. She graduated with distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, from Stanford University in 1985. She received her law degree from Columbia University in 1988 where she was the Notes Editor for the Law Review.
