Attorney Profiles

Jennifer Platzkere Snyder
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


phone	(215) 575-7077
fax	(215) 575-7200
email	Email Me

Areas of Focus:

Partner, Litigation Department; Labor and Employment Law Group. Ms. Snyder has over 12 years of experience representing public- and private-sector employers in all aspects of labor and employment law, including traditional union-management relations, employment discrimination, non-competition and trade secret disputes, executive employment agreements, wage and hour audits, personnel policies, and employee discipline and discharge matters.

In addition to counseling clients on minimizing litigation risks and negotiating satisfactory resolutions of disputes, Ms. Snyder has represented clients from the inception of litigation before governmental agencies through the trial and appellate courts.

Education:: Villanova University School of Law, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 1995
J.D. degree; University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School of Business, 1992
B.S. degree
Honors: Cum Laude; National Theater Institute, 1990

Professional Activities:: American Bar Association, Labor & Employment Law Section, Practice & Procedure Under the NLRA Subcommittee, CLE Liaison/Standing Committee Member, 2005 - Present; ABA Fellow, 2003 - 2005; The Philadelphia Lawyer magazine, Editorial Board, 2004 - Present; Temple American Inn of Court, Executive Committee, 2005 - Present; Member, 2003 - Present; The Baldwin School for Girls, Alumnae Board, 1996 - Present; Alumnae Association President/Board of Trustees, 2002 - 2005; Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, 1996 - Present; Philadelphia Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division Executive Committee, 1998 - 2001

Bar Admissions:: Pennsylvania; New Jersey; New York; U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit; U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania; U.S. District Court Western District of Pennsylvania; U.S. District Court District of New Jersey; U.S. District Court Southern District of New York; U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York

Presentations:: "Update on Remedies from the NLRB", ABA Midwinter Meeting, February 2008.; "Ethics: Recent Developments before the NLRB and Lessons from Hewlett Packard", ABA Midwinter Meeting, March 2007.; "New Frontiers in the Electronic Age: Blogging, the Internet, E-mail and Electronic Remedies", ABA Teleconference, November 2006.; "Electronic Remedies and Other Electronic Issues Under the NLRA", ABA Midwinter Meeting, Named Best of the ABA Midwinter Meetings presentation, March 2006.; "Preparing for the Electronic Age - NLRB Filings, Decisions and Information", ABA Midwinter Meeting, March 2005.; "NLRA Basics", ABA Annual Meeting, August 2004.; "Privacy in the Workplace: Does It Still Exist?", ABA Midwinter Meeting, February 2002.; "Hot Topics in Practice and Procedure Before the NLRB", ABA Annual Meeting, August 2001.; "Civility: A Roadmap for Lawyers", Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Received ABA Award of Distinction, October 2000.

Publications:: Co-author, Industrial Development: From Acquisition to Operation, Part IV: Labor Law Concerns in Acquiring Industrial Facilities, Seminar No. 1996 - 1094, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 2006; Co-author, WARNING! Employees' Entertainment May Be Employers' Headache, ALM Law Journal Newsletter, April 2004; The Enron Effect: Will the Fall of America's CEOs Reignite the Flame of the Labor Movement?, U.S. Business Review, May 2003

Honors and Awards:: Distinguished Young Alumnae Award, The Baldwin School for Girls; 50 on the Fast Track, The Legal Intelligencer and The Pennsylvania Law Weekly