Clark, Jennifer Hoover

Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Lawyer Overview

JENNIFER H. CLARK is an Associate in the Firm’s Birmingham office and practices in the Litigation Section of the Firm.  Jennifer has experience in various areas of trial and appellate litigation. She has represented homeowners' associations, corporations, developers, individuals, and public utilities in a wide variety of matters.  Jennifer’s practice focuses on the areas of real estate litigation, complex commercial litigation, environmental litigation, class action litigation, and business and financial services litigation.  Jennifer’s primary area of concentration is real property litigation, and her real property litigation experience includes land use restriction, easement, contract, trespass, and riparian rights disputes.

Jennifer regularly represents a Firm client on complex reservoir management matters, involving the application of real estate law, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission requirements, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regulations. 

In addition, Jennifer represents numerous property owners’ associations and developers and is routinely involved in protective covenant enforcement litigation.  She is often called upon to advise property owners’ associations and developers on issues relating to land use restrictions and the application of these restrictions to various situations. 

Jennifer also dedicates a significant portion of her practice to other areas of real estate law, including the law of title insurance, real estate information services, and land use and planning.

Jennifer has tried several jury and non-jury cases involving business disputes and claims for alleged property damage.  Jennifer has been successful in obtaining summary judgments for her clients in property and business dispute matters as well as in class action litigation.

Areas of Practice

• Litigation
• Product Liability & Casualty Litigation
• Real Estate Litigation
• Health Law

Bar Admissions

• Alabama, 2005
• U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Alabama
• U.S. District Court Middle District of Alabama
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Alabama

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association
• Alabama State Bar
• Alabama Defense Lawyers Association
• Birmingham Bar Association, 2008 - Present (Secretary/Treasurer)
• Birmingham Bar Association, 2007 - Present (Executive Committee)
• Alabama Defense Lawyers Trial Academy
• Defense Research Institute (DRI)
• Birmingham Inns of Court

Past Employment Positions

• Samford University, Adjunct Faculty Member

Education

• The University of Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2005
  J.D.
  Honors: cum laude
• University of Alabama, Alabama, 2002
  B.A.
  Honors: magna cum laude
  Major: Economics

Published Works

• "Strategy Decisions on CAFA: The Defense Perspective", 19 No. 3 Prac. Litigator 17, May, 2008
• Is More Really Less, For The Defense, February, 2008
• "What a Tangled Web We Weave: Strategy Decisions From the Defense Perspective on CAFA", 2007 ABA Annual Meeting, August, 2007

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Suite 1500
Birmingham, AL 35203-4642

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