REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
Jennifer’s representative experience includes:
- Representing a telecommunications company in connection with multi-jurisdictional purported collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
- Obtaining a summary judgment for a client in a Title VII discrimination case and successfully defending the decision on appeal.
- Winning a motion to dismiss for a financial services company in connection with a purported FLSA collective action.
- Representing a financial services corporation in federal income tax refund actions relating to foreign tax credits.
- Successfully representing a client on an appeal in sales and use tax refund actions.
- Representing a Fortune 500 company in a breach of contract claim against the government, resulting in a settlement of more than $100 million.
- Defending a power producer in environmental litigation.
- Representing corporations in state and municipal tax refund cases involving income, ad valorem, sales and use, and occupation taxes.
- Representing electric cooperatives in Georgia Territorial Electric Service Act matters at the Public Service Commission and in the appellate courts.
- Representing electric utilities in cases against municipalities involving the assessment of franchise fees and occupation taxes.
- Representing clients in a broad range of contract and business tort matters.
PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS
- Selected for Leadership Georgia (2012)
- Selected for inclusion in Georgia Super Lawyers® “Rising Stars” (2009)
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Board of Directors, Georgia Association for Women Lawyers
- Member, Women and Minorities Committee, State Bar of Georgia
- Member, Litigation Section, American Bar Association
- Member, Atlanta Bar Association
- Member, Electric Cooperative Bar Association
- Member, Lawyers Foundation of Georgia
- Member, Lawyers Club of Atlanta
- Former Board Member, Young Lawyers’ Division, State Bar of Georgia
- Past Member, American Inns of Court (Lamar Inn)
RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- Co-author, “Pension Committee: Degrees of Culpability and Discovery Sanctions,” Pretrial Practice & Discovery (Summer 2010)
- Co-author, Georgia Territorial Act Newsletter (August 2009)
- Co-author, Georgia Territorial Act Newsletter (January 2008)
- Author, “Diversifying Georgia’s Legal Profession: A Professionalism Cause to Appreciate,” Georgia Bar Journal (June 2007)
- Co-author, “Check Your Contracts Before Hurricane Season,” Pipeline and Gas Journal (April 2007)
- Co-author, Georgia Territorial Act Newsletter (September 2005)
- Speaker, Webinar: “Patronage Capital Litigation” (July 20, 2010)
- Speaker, 2010 Territorial Act Seminar (March 18, 2010)
- Moderator, “On the Cusp of Change? A Supreme Court Update with Dean Erwin Chermerinsky,” ABA Section of Litigation 2009 Annual Conference (April 30, 2009)
- Speaker, Georgia Electric Cooperative Legal Issue Seminar (November 7, 2008)
- Speaker, Georgia Territorial Act Seminar (April 2, 2008)