Jennifer N. Willis
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Partner
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Honors & Recognition
AV Preeminent® Rated: the highest peer rating for legal ability and ethical standards (Martindale-Hubbell)
America's Most Honored Professionals, Top 1% (The American Registry, 2019)
Background
Jennifer N. Willis is a partner at Willis & Buckley, APC, where she has spent decades representing injured people and families across Louisiana. Her practice focuses on products liability, personal injury, medical malpractice, lead poisoning, and nursing home negligence, and she has served as class counsel on some of the firm's most significant recoveries, including the $67 million settlement for children lead-poisoned in the Housing Authority of New Orleans.
She represents the whole client, guiding families through medical treatment, insurance, and disability issues while building the expert-driven cases these complex matters demand. She also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Products Liability at Loyola University College of Law.
Credentials
- Admitted: 1977 in Louisiana, Colorado, and the District of Columbia; the U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Louisiana; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; and the United States Supreme Court
- Law School: Loyola University New Orleans, J.D.
- Professional Memberships: New Orleans, Louisiana State, and American Bar Associations; Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Governors, 1992–1993); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America