When an organization faces a consequential legal or reputational challenge, Jonathan is a trusted counselor to the leaders responsible for deciding what to do next.
A former federal prosecutor and trial lawyer, Jonathan brings the judgment of someone who has built cases from the inside, the composure of a lawyer who has tried them to verdict, and the perspective of someone who has worked both inside government and in private practice. He helps organizations and their leaders navigate federal investigations, whistleblower allegations, sensitive internal matters, significant disputes, transactions, and other circumstances requiring careful legal and strategic judgment. Whether the challenge involves government enforcement, litigation, regulatory risk, or a rapidly developing crisis, Jonathan helps leadership understand the problem, frame the choices, assemble the right team, and make sound decisions while the facts are still developing.
Jonathan’s experience spans government, litigation, and public policy. Before becoming a lawyer, he worked for three years on Capitol Hill—serving in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives—and in the Georgia governor’s office. He subsequently served as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia, where he investigated and prosecuted complex criminal and civil matters involving healthcare fraud, financial crime, and other federal offenses. He was a key member of multiple international healthcare fraud investigations and prosecutions, tried cases involving doctors, lawyers, pharmacists, executives, and other professionals, and led significant civil investigations and litigation under the False Claims Act and Controlled Substances Act. He received some of the highest honors awarded by the Department of Justice, FBI, HHS-OIG, and DEA to federal prosecutors.
That experience now informs Jonathan’s private practice. Having seen the federal justice system from the government’s side, he represents organizations, executives, and individuals navigating investigations and litigation involving the government. He helps clients anticipate how prosecutors and regulators will evaluate facts, assess credibility, and make enforcement decisions, while also understanding the legal and practical consequences for the organization and its leaders. His work frequently requires him to coordinate lawyers and other professionals—including forensic accountants, technical experts, communications professionals, deal counsel, and other specialists—to address problems that do not fit neatly within a single legal discipline.
Jonathan’s deepest experience is in healthcare, where he represents health systems, physician groups, healthcare companies, and executives in False Claims Act investigations and other government enforcement matters. His practice is ranked among the leading healthcare fraud practices in the country by Chambers USA, which describes him as a “superstar” who is “professional in every way, wonderfully pragmatic,” and whose “biggest strength is seeing the bigger picture and understanding client objectives and setting a strategy.” Chambers notes that Jonathan has “a really incredible way of communicating” and that “clients love him.” Clients value his ability to explain complex issues clearly, identify the decisions that matter most, and help boards and executives act decisively when the facts and legal risks are still developing.
Jonathan’s work extends well beyond healthcare. He has served as lead counsel to a Fortune 500 company in a DOJ criminal investigation with potential corporate exposure, represented major financial institutions in federal matters—including an FBI investigation where multiple executives were targets—and advised international corporations in industries including logistics, manufacturing, and tobacco. He has also counseled university systems and their leaders in sensitive federal matters. His clients span financial services, higher education, logistics and transportation, manufacturing, government contracting, real estate, and other industries. Whether the matter involves a publicly traded corporation, a regulated financial institution, a university system, a government contractor, or another organization facing federal scrutiny, the underlying challenge is often the same: understanding what the law requires, identifying the competing interests at stake, and exercising sound judgment when there is no risk-free answer.
Jonathan is a frequent voice on federal enforcement policy and white-collar risk, including the Anti-Kickback Statute, False Claims Act, and DOJ enforcement priorities. He hosts Husch Blackwell’s False Claims Act Insights podcast, which Law360 named among the best podcasts for healthcare and life sciences lawyers. He teaches white-collar crime as an adjunct professor at Mercer University School of Law and has served in leadership roles in professional and community organizations.
Whether representing a healthcare system in a federal investigation, advising a board through a sensitive crisis, litigating against the government, or helping an organization determine how to respond when the stakes are high, Jonathan’s role is consistent: to bring clarity to complex problems, exercise sound judgment amid uncertainty, and help leaders make decisions they can stand behind.