SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Jenner & Block announced today that Helen Gilbert, former Chief of the National Security, Cyber, and Special Prosecutions Section in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, has joined the firm as a partner in its San Francisco office. She will play a key role in the firm’s Investigations, Compliance and Defense Practice. Helen spent 17 years with the Department of Justice, including 11 at the Northern District, where she led and supervised some of the government’s most significant national security, cybercrime, trade secret, and economic espionage matters. Her experience includes supervising the prosecution of former Google engineer Linwei Ding for stealing AI and supercomputing trade secrets, leading the investigation into the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, and serving as lead trial counsel in the prosecution of David DePape for the assault on Paul Pelosi and the attempted kidnapping of then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
