November 2003

Months after graduating from law school, Jenna Moore was involved in the biggest privacy lawsuit in the country. As a first-year associate at Alston & Bird in Atlanta, Jenna was assigned to the litigation team defending WebMD in a lawsuit with more than a billion dollars at stake. The case involved Envoy, the biggest health claim processing center in the country, which WebMD had acquired from Quintiles Transnational for $2.5 billion. In the acquisition agreement, Quintiles retained access to the data contained in the medical claims processed by Envoy. When WebMD discontinued transmission of the medical records to Quintiles to protect patient privacy rights, Quintiles filed suit. A settlement was reached after an appeal had been filed with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. The case addressed cutting edge legal issues in the areas of medical privacy rights, intellectual property, and electronic commerce.

After the WebMD lawsuit, Jenna was assigned to another high-profile case. Neal Batson, a partner at Alston & Bird, was the court-appointed Examiner in the Enron Corporation Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy petition in American history. As a member of the Alston & Bird team assigned to the case, Jenna has spent the past year and a half investigating the conduct of officers and directors at the Enron Corporation. Her firm recently filed its fourth and final report on Enron with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan. Despite the pressures of working on high-profile, multi-million dollar litigation, Jenna raves about her colleagues and resources at Alston & Bird. Her firm was recently ranked third in Fortune magazine's "The 100 Best Companies to Work For."

Jenna is from the small Midwestern town of Genoa, Illinois. She started college as an accounting major at Northern Illinois University. After two years at NIU, she decided to take a break from school. She came to South Florida where she waited tables and worked as a faculty secretary at the University of Miami School of Law. One of the benefits of the job was a tuition waiver that allowed Jenna to resume her undergraduate studies. Encouraged by faculty members at the law school to take classes that she enjoyed, Jenna changed her major to art history. Law professor, Michael Fischl, encouraged her to go to law school. "My initial response was that there wasn't a chance in the world that I'd become a lawyer, but Professor Fischl persisted and eventually we agreed that I'd take a practice LSAT." Jenna ultimately earned a full tuition scholarship to UM Law and her initial resistance to law quickly gave way. "Law school was the first time I was not working and a full-time student. I discovered Miami had many opportunities to offer and as a student you could get as much out of the experience as you were willing to put into it." Jenna was a member of the University of Miami Law Review and interned for UM Alum U.S. Magistrate John J. O'Sullivan in the Southern District of Florida. She graduated cum laude in 2000.