Jing Li

Jing Li

Jing Li

Associate · Cybercrime & Ransomware Response

Whitfield & Crane LLP

New York

Biography

Jing Li is a Associate in the firm’s Cybercrime & Ransomware Response group who joined Whitfield & Crane from the U.S. Department of Justice. She focuses on extortion response, breach triage and litigation against threat actors. recovered funds in matters spanning five continents.

She advises clients across the United States and Canada and works with the firm’s investigators and forensic accountants to move from first report to first freeze as quickly as the facts allow. She is admitted in New York and regularly coordinates matters with local counsel worldwide.

Representative Matters

  • Recovered funds held at correspondent banks in 4 countries after recall attempts failed
  • Secured a $51 million judgment against offshore operators and their enablers
  • Identified and froze extortion payments flowing through mixer services

Education

University of Chicago Law School
B.A., Yale University

Bar Admissions

New York
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York

Languages

English
Japanese

Recognition

Recipient of the firm’s Fraud Recovery Award