Jennifer is a director in the firm’s Litigation Department and chairs its Business Litigation Practice Group. She has over 25 years of experience litigating and resolving disputes for companies and business owners in a wide range of complex commercial cases and employment matters. She has litigated in state and federal courts in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Jennifer has represented companies in business litigation involving contracts, tortious interference, unfair competition, shareholder, real estate, tax abatement, eminent domain, leases, misrepresentation, and other business disputes. She has represented employers in the areas of employment discrimination, executive termination, retaliation, harassment, wrongful termination, contract, defamation, wages, trade secret, non-competition, and non-solicitation disputes. Jennifer has also represented companies in employment, tax abatement, and eminent domain matters at the administrative or agency level and conducted workplace trainings and discrimination/harassment investigations. She is also a trained mediator with extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution.
Jennifer received her J.D., summa cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School (1995) and her B.A., cum laude, from Boston College (1992). She also completed the St. Paul’s School Advanced Studies Program (1987).
Recognition:
- American College of Trial Lawyers;
- Chambers USA: A Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers;
- Benchmark Litigation - Top 250 Women;
- Best Lawyers in America;
- Super Lawyers New England;
- Suffolk University Law School, 2019 Outstanding Alumni Service;
- Top Women of Law, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, 2020;
- Marilla M. Ricker Achievement Award by the New Hampshire Women’s Bar Association 2016;
- Outstanding Woman in Business by New Hampshire Business Review (2015);
- Named Top 50 Woman Super Lawyers in New England (2013, 2015, 2016).
Involvement:
- Palace Theatres, Chair Board of Trustees (2020 - present), Board member (2012 - present), Co-Chair, Community Advisory Board (2018 - 2019);
- American Bar Association, State Delegate (NH) (2020-present);
- American Bar Association, Chair of Drafting Committee (2019-2020);
- Vice-Chair (2020-present);
- American Bar Association Special Committee on Hispanic Legal Rights & Responsibilities (2021-present);
- National Conference of Bar Presidents, President (2018-2019);
- Executive Council and Officer (2012-2020);
- President of the NH Bar Association (2011-2012);
- President of the NH Women’s Bar Association (2000-2002);
- New England Bar Association, President (2018-2019), Board (2011-2020);
- New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts, Secretary (2017-present); Board (2015-present)
Updated July 2022
