Ballard Spahr

Jacqueline Mabatah

Associate
Salt Lake City

Jacqueline Mabatah is an associate in the Litigation Department. While in law school, Jacqueline served an internship with the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), where she conducted factual, regulatory, and legal research for multiple DOJ fraud and bribery investigations. Prior to law school, Jacqueline interned at the White House during the Obama administration, where she reviewed and analyzed the effects of national HIV/AIDS intervention efforts.

Services

Professional Highlights

Pro Bono Experience

After law school, Jacqueline worked with Human Rights First, a nonprofit international human rights organization, where she facilitated workshops for adults with children seeking asylum by completing their I-589 Application for Asylum and Withholding of Removal forms.

Judicial Clerkships

Hon. Evelyn J. Furse, U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, September 2017-September 2019

Board Memberships & Community Service

Fulbright Research Scholar, The Fulbright Program

Publications

"Blaming the Victim? The Intersections of Race, Domestic Violence, and Child Neglect Laws," 8 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 355, Fall 2016

Credentials 

Education

Georgetown University Law Center (J.D. 2016)
Articles Editor, Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives

Boston College (B.A., magna cum laude, 2011)

Admissions

Utah

District of Columbia

Maryland