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Jennifer Dowd Deakin
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Jennifer is a member of the firm’s Corporate & Business, Health Care, and Pension & Employment Practice Groups. Jennifer represents small and mid‑sized companies in commercial financings, purchase and sale transactions, technology licensing and intellectual property matters. Jennifer also advises individual physicians and physicians’ groups in connection with organizational, governance and expansion issues. In addition, Jennifer counsels employers and human resource personnel in all aspects of the employment relationship, including litigation avoidance techniques, handbooks and personnel policies, family and medical leave and disability compliance, discrimination, harassment and retaliation investigations, discipline and performance management, employment contracts, severance and separation agreements, terminations and reductions‑in‑force, restrictive covenants and confidentiality agreements. Jennifer has represented clients in employment disputes before administrative agencies, including the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities and the Connecticut Department of Labor.
Jennifer joined the firm in 1995 and became a principal in 2001. Prior to joining Brenner, Saltzman & Wallman, Jennifer served as law clerk to Justice Joette Katz of the Connecticut Supreme Court and practiced in Boston at Foley Hoag LLP.