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Email: jzimmerman@outsidegc.com
Jill’s practice focuses upon life sciences (pharmaceutical and medical devices), business law, and litigation oversight gained during over 25 years of practice. She brings a unique combination of legal, operational, and strategic experience. For a decade, she served as General Counsel and Compliance Officer for a health services company. In addition, Jill has over a decade of experience in dispute resolution and national litigation oversight for the nation’s largest banks and manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and industrial products. Jill is known for her pragmatism, humor, and ability to harmonize business operations with legal requirements to efficiently pursue corporate goals.
Jill joined Outside GC in 2014. She has focused on supporting pharmaceutical and medical device companies of all sizes. She has worked extensively with Sanofi Genzyme for multiple US and global business units performing promotional and medical review for multiple drugs, as well as drafting and negotiating diverse agreements, including supply, distribution, marketing, collaboration, and quality agreements. Jill’s life science and medical device clients also include Pear Therapeutics, Inc., Jounce Therapeutics, Blueprint Medicines, Zealand Pharma U.S., Théa Pharmaceuticals, and others. She has supported clients facing generic competition, launching US operations for global companies and products that were recently approved by the FDA, as well as clients with no commercialized products, during all phases of the pre-commercial and commercial pipeline. Jill has helped to develop and operationalize comprehensive compliance programs for life science companies (including conducting employee training).
For a decade before joining Outside GC, Jill was General Counsel and Compliance Officer to a healthcare services company that served diverse healthcare providers and institutions. Jill has also represented numerous pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers. She has advised clients in healthcare contracting, audit and compliance, and the interface of technology and healthcare. 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.
Prior to joining Outside GC, 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.
Jill is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Michigan.
She graduated with distinction from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, (“Go Blue!”) and earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Boston College Law School.
Jill and her family moved from Concord, Massachusetts to Boston’s Seaport neighborhood. She enjoys visiting her kids at college, wildlife travel, boating in Boston harbor, and has returned to skiing after nearly three decades off snow.
