Jennifer L. Budner

A highly experienced litigator and trial counsel, Jennifer L. Budner defends clients in personal injury and wrongful death litigation with a focus on handling high exposure labor and construction law matters for more than 20 years. She has represented a wide variety of clients including property owners and contractors in premises liability and Labor Law actions, product manufacturers in product liability actions, and a variety of business owners in employment law actions. She represents clients in jury and non-jury trials, conducting party and expert depositions, and defending clients in all court proceedings including mediations. In addition, Jennifer has served as national coordinating counsel for a Fortune 500 company, overseeing litigation and trials nationwide. She achieved settlement of numerous catastrophic loss matters and conducted trials in matters with multi-million-dollar verdict potential.

As in-house litigation and trial counsel for a major insurance carrier, Jennifer handled the defense of complex, high value personal injury matters and represented large property owners in labor law litigation from case inception through mediation and trial. Earlier in her career, she defended the City of New York in all aspects of tort litigation including premises liability, labor law, and police cases as an Assistant Corporation Counsel in the New York City Law Department Office of the Corporation Counsel.