Jerome D. Ngando has over twelve (12) years of legal experience working with various law firms and multinational companies in the United States and overseas. He started his legal career as in-house counsel in 1996 in his native country of Cameroon (Central Africa) when he joined the law department of Guinness Cameroon, S.A., one of the largest companies in Africa and the local subsidiary of the international brewery company Guinness. He later went to private practice and represented local subsidiaries of multinational companies such as Exxon Mobil, Toyota, Texaco and Guinness in civil and commercial litigation.
Mr. Ngando did a legal internship in Paris, France, served as a Judicial Intern at the District of Columbia Superior Court and also as a Law Clerk and Paralegal for large law firms in the Washington, DC area. In 2005, he joined the law department of Sodexho, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Sodexho Alliance, S. A., a fortune 500 company and a world’s leader in food and facilities management services. In 2006, Jerome D. Ngando was promoted to an in-house corporate attorney position. As in-house attorney for Sodexho, an organization with more than 313,000 employees at 24,900 sites in 76 countries around the world, Mr. Ngando provided legal support in both English and French to the company's senior executives, various internal divisions and employees in the U.S., Canada and France.
languages including French and English and has a civil law and common law background.
In 2003, Mr.Ngando received an LLM from the Washington College of Law, American University in Washington, DC and was admitted to the Virginia bar in 2006. He also has two J.D. equivalents from Cameroon and he is also a member of the Cameroon bar association.
Jerome D. Ngando's international legal background and language capabilities make him the type of attorney that you want to have on your side in today’s global economy.