Jenni Ives practices in the areas of Employment and Labor law. She has worked on a variety of employment law matters, including cases involving discrimination, FMLA, ERISA, ADA and ADEA claims. Jenni also provides pro bono legal services through the Leonard, Street and Deinard Legal Clinic.

Before joining the firm, Jenni served as a law clerk to the Honorable David S. Doty, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, where she worked on complex civil and criminal matters. During law school, she served as the lead note and comment editor of the Minnesota Law Review and as a director of the Minnesota Justice Foundation Student Chapter. Prior to law school, she spent a year in Cameroon as a Fulbright Scholar.

Professional and Civic Activities

• American Bar Association
• Federal Bar Association
• Minnesota State Bar Association
• Minnesota Women Lawyers

• Coauthor, with Mary Pat Byrn, “Which Came First, the Parent or the Child?,” 62 Rutgers L. Rev. 305 (2010)
• “The Reproductive and Parental Rights of Incarcerated Mothers,” 46 Fam. Ct. Rev. 670 (2008)
• “Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang: How Current Approaches to Guns and Domestic Violence Fail to Save Women’s Lives,” 91 Minn. L. Rev. 1113 (2007)

Education

• J.D., magna cum laude, University of Minnesota Law School, 2008
       Volumes 35 & 36 Memorial Award for Outstanding Staff Writing
       2007 Hofstra Law School Family Law Writing Competition winner
• B.A., cum laude, Gender Studies and Political Science, Northwestern University, 2002

Admissions

• State of Minnesota, 2008
• U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, 2009