Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Jennifer is a former Chief Solicitor with the Baltimore City Office of Law and partner associated with several Baltimore-area law firms. She has accumulated more than twenty-five years of experience representing clients in employment, civil rights, business, insurance, and family law matters. Notable cases include a multi-million dollar suit involving allegations of fraud and undue influence by a wealth adviser and accountant; civil rights litigation involving an employer’s refusal to recognize an employee’s religious marriage; and a shareholder-initiated business dissolution suit tried before Chancellor Leo Strine of Delaware’s Chancery Court. Jennifer has also successfully represented clients before the Maryland Board of Contract Appeals and other federal, state and local agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Office of Compliance, the Commission on Human Rights, and various Merit System Protection Boards. She has regularly represented clients in private arbitrations before FINRA, the American Arbitration Association and other organizations and in mediations. Jennifer attended writer’s workshops at Kenyon Review, Tin House and Bread Loaf as well as the Center for Academically Talented Youth program at Johns Hopkins University, and she returned to CTY to teach in 2022. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree awarded by the Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University. Her blog, Work Product: Law, Literature and Laxism, occasionally appeared within the pages of the Journal of the American Bar Association. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Chicago Review of Books, Plume, Birmingham Poetry Review, EPOCH, Best New Poets, Hopkins Review, Denver Quarterly, Hollins Critic, and elsewhere. She is the author of Bullet Points: A Lyric, and House of Myth and Necessity, both from River River Books. Panels, readings, talks and other appearances include: New York Poetry Festival; Lit Youngstown; Virginia Festival of the Book; AWP; Nossrat Yassini; Of Poetry podcast; My Bad Poetry podcast; Garden of Thought podcast. She is annoyed by algorithms. Please do not message her with AI sales pitches. Ask her what she's reading for best results.
Attorney: personal injury, medical malpractice, products liability, appellate
Employment, security clearance, civil rights, and family litigation.