Jenn’s practice focuses on advice and litigation in employee benefits and employment law matters.  She represents numerous multiemployer plan clients including retirement plans (defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans), group health plans, apprentice and other welfare plans in various compliance areas including ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, the Affordable Care Act, and HIPAA. She regularly provides advice on fiduciary issues, prohibited transactions, conflicts of interest, plan investments, plan service provider contracts, and in day-to-day administrative matters. She also represents multiemployer plans and their trustees in DOL and IRS audits and investigations, and ERISA-related litigation involving claims for benefits and breaches of fiduciary duty.  She represents private and public employers in all aspects of the employment relationship including, but not limited to, providing advice on day-to-day compliance with applicable labor and employment laws, handling grievances and grievance arbitrations, and representing employers before the EEOC, PHRC and in litigation brought against them in state or federal court. She regularly drafts handbooks and policies for employers and provides human resources training to employers and their employees on compliance with federal and state discrimination, wage, and leave laws.

Jenn is a frequent speaker on various employee benefits-related topics.  

Jenn obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Delaware in 2007 and her Juris Doctorate from Temple University, Beasley School of Law in 2011. She joined the firm in 2012 after serving as law clerk for the Honorable Nelson C. Johnson in Atlantic City, New Jersey. She is a member of the bars of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey as well as numerous federal district and circuit courts.

In her free time, Jenn likes to hang out with her family, run, surf, and watch the Phillies and Eagles (go birds!).

Publications

September/October 2023 Benefits Magazine: Co-author “How to be Fully Transparent—Can Funds Overshare in Participant Communications?

Speaking Engagements

2024 IFEBP Annual Conference – Co-presenter “Communicating with Plan Participants”

2024 IFEBP Benefits Communication and Technology Institute – Co-presenter “Onboarding Communication & Technology”

2024 IFEBP Institute for Apprenticeship, Training and Education – Co-presenter “Supporting Women & LGBTQIA Apprentices”

2023 IFEBP Annual Conference – Co-presenter “Administration Office Politics, Ethics, and Compliance”

2023 IFEBP Annual Conference – Co-presenter “DEI for Benefits Attorneys”

2023 EPIC Conference – “Legal & Regulatory Update”

2023 IFEBP Advanced Trustees and Administrators Institute – Co-presenter “Participant Education”

2023 IFEBP Webcast Co-presenter “From Pandemic to Endemic: Respiratory Illness and the Workforce.”

2022 IFEBP Annual Conference – Co-presenter “How to be Fully Transparent: Can the Fund Overshare in Participant Communications?”

2022 IFEBP Benefits Communication and Technology Institute – “Legal Compliance Issues in Benefit Communications”

2022 IFEBP Institute for Apprenticeship, Training, and Education Programs– Co-presenter “Succession Planning for Your Key Leaders”

2019 IFEBP Annual Conference – Co-presenter “Tools and Insights: Developing Future Leaders and Succession Planning for the Fund Office”

2019 AGC 35^th Annual Construction Law Symposium – “Primer on Regulations Governing Apprenticeship Programs and How the Approval Process Works”

2017 IFEBP Annual Conference – Co-presenter “Tried and True Employment Practices in the Fund Office”

2016 IFEBP Annual Conference – “Employment Law for the Fund Office”