JENESA MAGGART

Email: jmaggart@mehanlaw.com
Telephone: (314) 725-3200 x100

Jenesa began working for the firm’s predecessor, Moline, Shostak & Mehan, LLC, after graduating from the Vanderschmidt School in St. Louis in 1999. She first served as an administrative assistant and shortly thereafter became the office manager and the go-to paralegal for the firm.

While Jenesa works with a variety of the firm’s clients, she has a particular focus on their case and file management.

She assists in the preparation of pleadings, motions, and correspondence; organizes electronic discovery; performs document review and analysis; and is responsible for the creation and maintenance of firms’ electronic databases.

She also monitors court filings, tracks calendar deadlines, and performs research. She adapts quickly to new technology systems and applies and executes protocols for the benefit of our clients.

Over the course of her nearly quarter-century legal career, she has handled almost every sort of complex legal issue. Some of the more thought-provoking cases she has worked on were in the area of criminal law:

• USA v. R.S. (Eastern District of Missouri). Multi-defendant case charging 48 counts of fraud, money laundering and related crimes involving 97,000 customers and $450 million in losses. Discovery involved over three million documents. Duties included reviewing, organizing and searching massive amounts of discovery; meeting with client and other defense counsel in joint meetings and strategy sessions.
• USA v. B.M. (Central District of California). Largest federal death penalty case as of that date, originating from the 2002 Indictment of Aryan Brotherhood members. Discovery exceeded 200,000 documents from multiple defense sources and government agencies.  Duties included organizing, indexing, summarizing and transferring documents into CaseMap; meeting with client regularly at USP Marion; coordinating with other defense counsel, paralegals, investigators, and mitigation specialists in other states; preparing subpoenas and writs, FOIA requests and requests for Central Inmate Files; reviewing jury questionnaires and preparing jury spreadsheets; participating in defense strategy meetings.
• USA v. J.R. (Southern District of Illinois). Client absconded to Peru after 1999 Indictment for health care and mail fraud. Duties included researching extradition treaties and preparing motion to dismiss prior to trial which resulted in a plea and client’s 37- month sentence, a very favorable outcome given the circumstances.
• USA v. D.M.S. (Southern District of Illinois). Multi-defendant death penalty case. Trial preparation lasted two years; trial lasted six months. Duties included reviewing, organizing, summarizing discovery and summarizing daily trial transcripts.
• USA v. M.M. (Eastern District of Missouri). Multi-defendant death eligible case.  Indictment charged conspiracy to distribute marijuana, interstate travel in aid of racketeering, possession of firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking resulting in murder.  Duties included organizing and summarizing thousands of pages of discovery and participation in defense strategy meetings.
• USA v. T.M. (Southern District of Illinois). Indictment charged conspiracies to commit mail and wire fraud. Duties included assisting in mock-jury sessions; reviewing and organizing discovery; and technical preparation of sentencing memorandum which contained embedded videos of client’s family members and friends, in lieu of written letters (a concept that was unheard of at that time).
• USA v. G.W. (Southern District of Illinois). Multi-defendant death penalty case charging murder for hire. Discovery all in paper form. Duties included review and summary of thousands of pages of documents and transcripts. 

Jenesa’s more recent work and focus includes matters involving securities arbitrations, regulatory and compliance issues, multimillion-dollar private offerings, and business sales and acquisitions.  She has a gift for problem solving and works to streamline processes to guarantee that cases are managed as efficiently as possible. Clients and attorneys appreciate that she’s a reliable team player who is methodical in her work. She thrives on the often fast pace of getting clients and
attorneys what is needed for the best approach and outcome.