Women's Bar Association of Illinois

Board of Directors: Jennifer Irmen

Jennifer P. Irmen is a trial attorney at the Chicago law firm of Bruce Farrel Dorn & Associates. Jennifer joined Bruce Farrel Dorn & Associates in 2004 and has acted as the lead attorney for countless jury trials, bench trials, arbitration and ADR proceedings involving premise liability, negligent hiring, dog bite, fire, auto, and construction cases, all of which resulted in thirty not guilty verdicts in her favor. Moreover, for the past two years, Jennifer has been an adjunct law professor for the nationally acclaimed legal writing program at The John Marshall Law School.

Before joining the law firm of Bruce Farrel Dorn & Associates, Jennifer clerked for Beermann Swerdlove, where she drafted legal memoranda regarding child support, property division, and maintenance. Prior to clerking there, Jennifer clerked in the Employment Litigation Division of the Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago. The summer and fall after Jennifer’s first year of law school, Jennifer served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Judge Guzman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois where she drafted legal opinions concerning employment and racial discrimination as well as deportation and removal proceedings.

Upon graduation from The John Marshall Law School, after being the President of John Marshall’s Student Bar Association, Jennifer was appointed a member of the John Marshall Alumni Association’s Board of Directors; she has served as a member of that board for the past six years. In 2004, she was named as the Outstanding Women Law Graduate from The John Marshall Law School by the National Association of Women Lawyers. While at John Marshall, Jennifer received the Edith and Philip Baim Scholarship Award, the Marion Scholarship Award, the John Marshall Alumni Association Merit Scholarship, and the Dean’s Scholarship for Academic Achievement.

This year, Jennifer is beginning her third year as a member of the Board of Directors for the Women’s Bar Association. In her capacity as a director over the last two years, Jennifer developed a new and fresh marketing concept for the WBAI’s website, publications, and other marketing pieces. Jennifer co-chaired this year's Annual Installation Dinner, the WBAI's largest event, and will co-chair the WBAI's Judicial Reception in the Spring. Jennifer’s time coordinating communications projects and social events as an intern in the Social Office of the White House under the Clinton administration in 1999 has given her a unique perspective which she will undoubtedly apply in all of her roles with the WBAI.

Jennifer Irmen
Bruce Farrel Dorn & Associates
120 N. LaSalle St., Suite 1900
Chicago, Illinois  60602
Phone:  312-683-3038
Fax: 312-683-3040
jennifer.irmen.sqs8@statefarm.com
http://www.statefarm.com

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