Jennifer Neumann is senior counsel with Foley & Lardner LLP, and is a member of the firm's Labor & Employment Practice and Automotive Industry Team.
Ms. Neumann has experience handling class actions, non-competition and trade secrets matters, and employment-related litigation and labor law. She also handles matters before the EEOC and MDCR; and advises corporate clients regarding employment law compliance, reductions in force, and employment policies. In addition, Ms. Neumann is actively involved in Foley's recruiting efforts, having previously served as the summer program coordinator.
Ms. Neumann earned her law degree from the Washington University School of Law (J.D., with honors, 2002), where she was executive editor of the Washington University Journal of Law and Policy and a member of Phi Alpha Delta and Women’s Law Caucus. She earned her bachelor’s degree in physical anthropology from the University of California at Santa Barbara (B.A., 1999).
Ms. Neumann has spoken on various labor and employment law topics and has authored the following publications:
- "If You Want Your Employees to be Accessible 24-7: Be Prepared to Pay," Michigan Lawyers Weekly (November 2011)
- "Social Media and the Workplace: Twittering Away Trade Secret and Confidential Information," Inside Supply Management (March 2011)
- "The Audacity of 2010 Changing Labor Law Could be President Obama’s Next Defining Moment," Material Handling Management (December 2009)
- "Preserving the Attorney-Client Privilege in the Employment Environment," Michigan Bar Journal (January 2009)
- "Employment Discrimination Cases: On the Rise and Evolving," Employment Newsletter (February 2003)
- "Insider Trading: Does "Aware" Really Resolve the "Possession" Versus "Use" Debate?" Washington University Journal of Law & Review (2001)
She is admitted to practice in Michigan, and before the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.