Jen serves as Barclay Damon’s Trusts & Estates Practice Area co-chair and also is a member of the firm's Compensation Committee. Her practice focuses on trusts and estate litigation, planning, and administration, with her litigation practice including will and trust contests; fiduciary litigation; and will-construction, fiduciary-removal, accounting, spousal-rights, and kinship proceedings.
Jen also works with fiduciaries, beneficiaries, and creditors and handles litigated guardianship cases and guardianship and supplemental-needs trust matters. She is certified with the NYS Office of Court Administration to receive fiduciary appointments as court evaluator, guardian, guardian ad litem, receiver, referee, and attorney for alleged incapacitated persons. Jen has significant experience working with individuals on marital agreement plans, including pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements; working with clients regarding business-succession planning; and handling planning involving sophisticated transfer and income-tax considerations.
In addition to her role at Barclay Damon, Jen serves as the Erie County public administrator.