Jean Veta

About Jean Veta

I am a Senior Counsel at Covington & Burling LLP, having served as a Partner for over 25 years. Chambers USA describes me as \"one of the premier banking and financial regulatory enforcement litigators in the country.” I defend financial institutions and their officers and directors in civil and regulatory enforcement matters, government investigations, internal corporate investigations, and congressional investigations. I regularly represents clients on the full range of regulatory enforcement issues, including:• Advising on safety and soundness issues, UDAAP and other consumer compliance issues, fair lending, anti-money laundering, securities issues, and FIRREA and False Claims Act investigations.• Appearing before the federal bank regulators, the CFPB, FinCEN, the Department of Justice, the SEC, and state attorneys general and bank regulatorsI am ranked in Chambers USA\'s Band 1 for Banking Enforcement and Investigations. Based on my success in defending IndyMac Bank’s former CEO during the 2008 financial crisis, I was named by The American Lawyer as Litigator of the Week. I also have been named by Best Lawyers in America as \"Washington\'s Lawyer of the Year for Banking and Finance Litigation\" and \"Washington\'s Lawyer of the Year for Financial Services Regulatory Law.\"I serve on the American Bar Association\'s Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, which provides an impartial evaluation of the professional qualifications of all federal judicial nominees. I acted as a lead evaluator of Supreme Court nominee, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson\'s professional qualifications, and testified at her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing. I also serve as the DC Bar’s Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates.My pro bono work includes:• Representing the rights of transgender adolescents in receiving gender affirming medical care and in education. For example, we are filing amicus briefs on behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, and about 20 other professional medical associations in opposing state laws that would ban gender affirming medical care for transgender adolescents.• Representing pro-choice organizations in Congressional investigations involving such issues as access to reproductive health care, fetal tissue research, and late-term abortion. During President Clinton’s administration, I served as:• Deputy Associate Attorney General, United States Department of Justice • Deputy General Counsel, United States Department of Education

Experience

1. Senior Counsel

   Covington & Burling LLP

   Oct 2020 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   Jean Veta is described by Chambers USA as \"one of the premier banking and financial regulatory enforcement litigators in the country” and is ranked first in Chambers USA\'s Band 1 for Banking Enforcement and Investigations. She defends financial institutions and their officers and directors in civil and regulatory enforcement matters, government investigations, internal corporate investigations, and congressional investigations.

Education

• Tulane University Law School

  J.D.

  1979 — 1981

• Tulane University

  Bachelor of Arts - BA

  1974 — 1977

Skills

• Regulatory Compliance
• Corporate Internal Investigations
• Civil Litigation
• Government Enforcement Actions