Jill Zimmerman Holub

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Prior to joining Practus, for nearly 10 years, Jill was a Partner with Outside GC LLC and a Partner in Patent GC LLC, and for most of that time served as their Chief Operating Officer. While COO, Jill worked closely with the firm’s two founders and helped to grow the firm into the nation’s largest provider of on-demand in-house counsel legal services.  While there, Jill’s legal work focused on supporting pharmaceutical, medical device, healthcare and other companies of all sizes. She worked extensively with Sanofi Genzyme for multiple US and global business units performing promotional and medical review for multiple FDA and foreign approved drugs, as well as review ad board and speaker materials and the full array of product attorney responsibilities.  For many other life science and healthcare clients Jill drafted and negotiated diverse agreements, including supply, distribution, marketing, collaboration, and quality agreements. Jill’s life science and medical device clients also include Blueprint Medicines, Jounce Therapeutics, Pear Therapeutics, Inc., Théa Pharmaceuticals, Zealand Pharma U.S., and others. She has supported clients during the critical and intense launch period after approval by the FDA, as well as clients with no commercialized products.  Jill has helped to develop, operationalize, and train employees on comprehensive compliance programs for life science companies.  Additionally, as a Partner of Patent GC, she focused on trademark prosecution and enforcement and brings that intellectual property and data privacy background to her clients.

In another highly regulated industry – national banks, Jill was the Vice President of Contested Litigation for a national commercial law firm with offices in 28 states. She oversaw over 100 attorneys and over 20,000 litigation cases for the nation’s largest banks and financial services companies during a time of intense regulatory scrutiny.  She worked closely with the firm’s leadership and her banking clients to ensure they accomplished their business goals, minimized litigation and regulatory risk, ensuring strong outcomes in contested lawsuits across the US.  Jill operationalized complex client requirements with federal and state regulations at a time of intense scrutiny and during a period of serious economic downturn.

For nearly a decade, Jill also served as General Counsel and Compliance Officer to a healthcare services company that served diverse healthcare providers and institutions. Jill represented numerous pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers and advised on diverse healthcare related agreements and compliance matters.  She is adept at working at the interface of technology and law. Throughout her career, she reviewed and negotiated a broad range of contracts for day-to-day business operations including vendor/supplier agreements, consulting agreements, software licenses and NDAs.

Jill has also practiced as an IP litigator and filed trademark applications for her clients.  During her nearly 30-year career, she has enjoyed supporting companies and individuals in times of growth and has been a trusted advisor in challenging times.  She has found it to be very rewarding.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

Life Science

• Launched multiple FDA approved prescription drugs and medical devices
• FDA advertising and promotional and medical review committees
• Analyze anti-kickback, federal and state transparency laws, and perform privacy assessments
• Compliance and enforcement advice
• Support regulatory, contracting, and compliance functions
• Developed and trained nationwide employees on compliance program
• Review and negotiate diverse agreements
• Perform review and provide advice about ad boards, speaker programs, patient programs, and patient advocacy
• Review medical and corporate communications and minimize risk

Litigation

• Served as national trial counsel to diverse manufactures in high risk litigation
• Successfully conducted depositions
• Pursue and defend complex commercial and impact litigation
• Built out a national litigation program for the nation’s largest banks in compliance with rigorous client requirements and audits, as well as federal and state requirements
• Successfully litigated diverse intellectual property lawsuits including patent, trademark, cybersquatting, and discrimination matters for mostly corporate clients
• Defended medical malpractice and counseled law firms on professional liability matters.

Intellectual Property

• Prosecute trademark applications
• Represent diverse clients in IP lawsuits in federal and state courts
• Analyze and resolve IP disputes without litigation
• Police and enforce IP rights of clients
• Advise on data privacy and IP strategies to new and established companies.