Jennifer B. Hagedorn

Jennifer Hagedorn leads the Bowles Rice Labor and Employment team.  She focuses her practice in representing businesses in all aspects of employment and workplace issues. She works with her employer clients to provide comprehensive preventative services to minimize potential risk of litigation.  She also works with business clients to develop creative, thoughtful defense strategies for times when litigation cannot be avoided.

She routinely counsels businesses, such as banks, hospitals and other health care providers, manufacturing clients, energy clients, and other various entities of all sizes on ways to properly handle human resources issues, potential disciplinary situations, leaves of absence matters, separations and various employee complaints.  Jennifer also assists her clients in conducting workplace investigations and creating employment policies and handbooks tailored to the particular industry of her client.  Jennifer’s representation of business clients in such matters has involved many appearances at administrative hearings, depositions and related litigation filings.

Jennifer has also represented her clients in litigation matters at a state and federal level including wrongful termination claims, discrimination claims, including harassment and sexual harassment, retaliation claims, breach of contract claims, and invasion of privacy claims. Jennifer has also successfully defended businesses in claims brought before administrative agencies, such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor, as well as various state administrative agencies in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of West Virginia.

Jennifer also serves as general counsel to small businesses, advising clients on all aspects of the law and other business matters, including employment related matters, contract negotiation and drafting, real estate transactions, and statutory and regulatory compliance.

She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.

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