Although engaged in a wide-ranging litigation practice, Jennifer focuses her practice primarily on employment litigation, counseling of long term care facilities, commercial litigation and insurance matters.
In areas of employment litigation, Jennifer counsels employers regarding the policies contained in their employee handbooks as well as issues involving employee discharge and employee leave. Jennifer has experience with protection of trade secret information and the enforcement of non-competition agreements. She also defends companies against various discrimination charges that have been filed by employees with the EEOC and state fair employment practice agencies.
Jennifer counsels long term care facilities regarding their resident admission practices and procedures, collection issues and issues related to residents' rights. She also defends long term care facilities in both administrative proceedings and state court against claims filed by residents and/or their families.
Representative Experience
- Defend discrimination claims filed against employers with state and federal human rights agencies.
- Defended a large company against race discrimination and retaliation charges.
- Represented a nursing facility in an action against a former resident's relative who had engaged in a fraudulent transfer of property.
- Represented a software company in a breach of contract lawsuit filed against a medical billing company which refused to pay for computer programs specifically developed for them.
- Defended an insurer against failure to defend and bad faith claims.
