Bass, Berry & Sims attorney Jessie Zeigler was named to the Lawdragon 500 Global Leaders in Crisis Management for 2026. This is the second year Lawdragon has recognized lawyers in this discipline and honors the world’s leading minds in the art of calming, managing, defusing and “handling” matters that threaten an institution, whether a global corporation, powerful individual, nonprofit or other entity. As defined by Lawdragon, these advisors on the list are “the legal world’s emergency responders – when investigators turn their eye to a client, a deal attracts activist activity or an industry goes under the relentless microscope of a class action.”
Lawdragon released the 2026 Global Leaders in Crisis Management on February 27 and is available here. Jessie was recognized in the Crisis Management, Litigation, Class Action practices.
Jessie is a seasoned litigator and crisis management strategist and has represented clients in some of the nation’s most high-profile cases over the last 25+ years. Her counsel has saved clients millions in losses across various industries – including pharmaceutical/life sciences, medical device, automotive, chemical, consumer products, food and beverage, healthcare, manufacturing, and pulp and paper – as they have faced claims related to crisis management, environmental, health and safety, products liability, healthcare liability, or business disputes. Jessie was most recently involved in precedent-setting opioid cases, high-stakes wildfire litigation and class action defense across numerous industries. Read more about her practice here.