Jennifer has handled federal and state court lawsuits and arbitrations in more than half the states across the country. Jennifer is effective because she is creative, understands her clients’ business interests, finds quick ways to minimize risk, but is prepared to try issues to their conclusion when needed.

Jennifer serves as a Director for the University of Houston Law Foundation and is on the steering committee for her alma mater’s Women of the Law alumni group. Jennifer gives back to the advocacy program that sparked her desire to become a litigator by judging the Moot Court National Championship and teaching practical skills courses as an adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law Center.

University of Houston Law Center

J.D., Order of the Barristers

  • Judicial Intern for the Honorable David Hittner, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas

  • Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot (Hong Kong) - honorable mention awards for best brief and best speaker

  • Texas Young Lawyers Association Moot - best brief

University of California, San Diego

B.A., Political Science, International Relations/Minor in Organic Chemistry

  • Study abroad in Rome - Renaissance art

Education
Admissions

  • Texas

  • U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas

  • U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado

  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

  • U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico

  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin

  • Texas Bar Foundation Fellow

  • Association of Life Insurance Counsel

  • Garland R. Walker American Inn of Court

  • Houston Bar Association

  • Association of Women Attorneys

  • Asian American Bar Association of Houston

Memberships

  • Communication and negotiation training for carrier client’s analysts (May 2019).

  • ERISA training for carrier client (December 2019).

  • Litigation Perspectives on ESL Claims and Disclosure Issues – webinar hosted by RGA (May 2021).

  • Trial/Arbitration CLE training for firm’s associates (July 2021).

  • Claims Issues from a Litigation Perspective – RGA Symposium (April 2023).

  • NITA deposition training faculty (recurring).

  • Deposition training for Bracewell LLP (June 2024).

Speaking/Training Engagements

  • Summary judgment in favor of client on ERISA benefit dispute in the Eastern District of Oklahoma that was confirmed by the Tenth Circuit.

  • Summary judgment in favor of stop loss carrier that was confirmed by the Missouri Court of Appeals.

  • Affirmation by the Texas Fifth Court of Appeals of dismissal of lawsuit against Medicaid plan after oral argument.

  • Dismissal of ERISA lawsuit in Kansas.

  • Judgment in favor of third-party administrator in ERISA lawsuit in Eastern District of Arkansas.

  • Take-nothing arbitration award after hearing and briefing against claimant/hospital seeking to recover in excess of $1 million.

  • Judgment on behalf of insurer client against agent in Connecticut.

  • Dispositive arbitral rulings in dispute brought by hospital system seeking millions of dollars on thousands of claims.

  • Numerous favorable settlements on behalf of multiple clients involving life insurance, ERISA, and disability matters.

  • Numerous favorable settlements for stop loss carrier and managing general underwriter clients.

  • Millions of dollars in reimbursement and subrogation for health plans and health insurers.

Results