Elizabeth J. Jonas

Elizabeth Jonas' practice focuses on the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), complex civil litigation, and appellate advocacy. She has experience involving the Federal Employees Health Benefits Act (FEHBA), the False Claims Act (FCA), breach of fiduciary duty claims, corporate governance disputes, employment discrimination, and administrative agency appeals. Some of her recent representations include challenges to state laws on ERISA preemption grounds and the defense of parties in litigation brought by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). 

Ms. Jonas has extensive experience litigating before federal and state trial and appellate courts. She has represented clients in matters before the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and in mediations. She advises on regulatory matters relating to health and welfare plans, including the intersection of state insurance regulation with federal law, such as the extraterritorial reach of state laws. She has authored amicus briefs on behalf of clients on a wide variety of important legal and social issues.

Prior to returning to Miller & Chevalier, Ms. Jonas was with a global law firm where she focused on complex commercial disputes in state and federal courts, including the New York Supreme Court and the District of New Jersey. 

Ms. Jonas has an active pro-bono practice, having served as counsel to veterans before the Board of Veterans' Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, court-appointed counsel at the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, as co-counsel to amicus curiae the Innocence Project at the U.S. Supreme Court, and as counsel to an inmate on federal death row. 

Ms. Jonas began her career as a litigation associate at an Am Law 100 firm, where she assisted on white collar criminal defense, government and internal investigations, and appellate litigation. She previously served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Roy McLeese III in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and legal intern to the Honorable Marian Blank Horn in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. 

Ms. Jonas graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 2016, where she served as a managing editor of the Annual Survey of White Collar Crime at the American Criminal Law Review and as a student attorney for the Appellate Litigation Clinic.