Jennifer Carter Bio

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Jennifer Casazza Carter, ESQ.

Counsel

Jennifer Casazza Carter represents businesses on the management side of employment litigation and counseling, focusing her practice on contracts, restrictive covenant, non-solicitation, and unfair completion claims throughout all stages of litigation.  Jennifer defends employers in state and federal court, before administrative agencies, and has litigated claims arising under NJLAD, CEPA, Title VII, ADA, ADEA, NJWHL, and various wage and hour statutes.  Additionally, she advises clients on disciplinary investigations and complaints.  Jennifer’s prior experience encompassed an array of traditional employment matters, including workplace discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

Jennifer has represented and counseled attorneys and other professionals during all stages of litigation, including pre-suite negotiations, prepared pleadings, discovery/e-discovery, depositions, motion practice, trial, and appellate practice in addition to representing businesses in contract disputes.  A graduate of William & Mary Law School and a published member of the William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law, Jennifer is also an active member of both the New Jersey State Bar Association and New Jersey Defense Association.

Best Lawyers® "Ones to Watch" 2024, 2025
Super Lawyers® Rising Star, Employment & Labor 2023, 2024

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Professional Experience
Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP, Hackensack, New Jersey | Associate, Professional Liability Practice Group 2019 - 2022
McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP, Newark, New Jersey | Associate, Insurance Litigation Practice Group 2017 - 2019
Mark Law Firm, LLC, Basking Ridge, New Jersey | Associate 2014 - 2017
New Jersey Division of Law, Trenton, New Jersey | Post-Graduate Public Service Fellow 2014

 

William & Mary Law School (J.D., cum laude) 2014
The George Washington University (B.A., Political Science, magna cum laude) 2011

State of New Jersey
United States District Court – District of New Jersey
State of New York
United States District Court – Northern District of New York
Publications
Iram P. Valentin and Jennifer Casazza Carter, Of Squares and Rectangles: The Fiduciary Standard Imposed on Insurance Brokers, Both Problem and Answer, 225 N.J. L. J. 48 November 27, 2019
Jennifer L. Casazza, Note, Sex Reassignment Surgery: Required for Transgendered Prisoners but Forbidden for Medicaid, Medicare and CHAMPUS Beneficiaries, 20 WM. & MARY J. WOMEN & L. 625 2014
Speaking Engagements
Navigating Pay Transparency and Pay Equity, Webinar, Imperial Advisory June 2023
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