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Jennifer is a highly skilled litigator in King & Spalding’s Houston office who represents leading energy, manufacturing, and retail clients in high-stakes, complex disputes. She is well-known for her effective defense of Fortune 500 companies in mass environmental and toxic tort litigation, including claims for manufacturing defects, negligence, and natural resource damage. Jennifer is frequently recognized by clients for her responsiveness, strategic counsel, and ability to achieve favorable outcomes in challenging matters. She also has a proven track record of success in litigating challenging and often catastrophic personal injury or wrongful death cases, particularly those arising from industrial accidents, fires, and explosions at refineries and chemical plants.
Jennifer handles all types of environmental matters, with expertise in litigating groundwater contamination lawsuits alleging property damage or personal injury. She has managed investigations and cases alleging contamination from a vast array of constituents, including contaminants like 1,2,3-trichlorapropane, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, and PCBs. Jennifer leverages her technical expertise to clearly explain complex scientific and legal issues associated with this complex type of work to judges and juries, ensuring persuasive advocacy in hearings, jury-research exercises, arbitrations, and trial. With a background in leading cases at both a boutique litigation law firm and in big law, she brings a uniquely broad and deep wealth of experience to all aspects of litigation, skillfully handling and defending fact and expert depositions, resolving complex written discovery disputes, and successfully arguing discovery and dispositive motions in state and federal court.
Jennifer earned her law degree from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, where she served as the Note and Comment Editor for the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution. She also earned the CALI Award for Excellence in International Dispute Resolution and received the second highest recognition of Public Service Fellow with Dean’s Special Recognition for her volunteer legal work in the community. Prior to attending law school, Jennifer graduated magna cum laude from The Ohio State University with a B.A. in Political Science and a B.A. in International Studies. She was also inducted into the National Political Science Honor Society, Pi Sigma Alpha.
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