Jenny Bobbitt
Associate
Areas of Focus
- Labor & Employment
- Labor Relations Strategic Advice & Counseling
- Labor & Employment Issues in Restructuring and Corporate Transactions
- Employment Discrimination/Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Advocacy
- Executive Disputes & Agreements
- Labor & Employment Issues Affecting Government Contractors
- Wage & Hour/Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Litigation & Counseling
- Workplace Investigations, Civil Rights Audits & DEI Practices Advice
- Concentrates on labor & employment matters.
Jenny assists employers, including those in the hedge fund and private equity industry, and public & private companies, on an array of labor & employment matters.
Jenny drafts and negotiates employment agreements, separation agreements, restrictive covenant agreements and other employment-related agreements. She assists employers with complex human resources investigations, and with drafting employee handbooks and employment policies, leading anti-harassment and anti-discrimination trainings, and counseling on day-to-day workplace issues.
In addition, Jenny assists clients with labor & employment issues in the context of corporate transactions and restructurings. In connection with such transactions and restructurings, Jenny conducts labor & employment due diligence, drafts and negotiates purchase and credit agreements, advises employers on transferring, hiring and terminating workers, and negotiates collective bargaining agreements.
EducationJ.D., Washington University School of Law
M.B.A., Washington University in St. Louis
B.A., Northwestern University
J.D., Washington University School of Law
M.B.A., Washington University in St. Louis
B.A., Northwestern University
Bar AdmissionsNew York
North Carolina
New York
North Carolina
- Leadership Raleigh, 2023.
- North Carolina Rising Stars, 2020-2022 and 2024.
- Best Lawyers, One to Watch, 2022-2023.
- Super Lawyers, North Carolina, 2022-2023.
- National Black Lawyers, Top 100, 2022.
- Capital City Lawyer’s Association, Wake County’s leading association for Black attorneys, 2023.
- Super Lawyers, Kentucky, 2019.
- Louisville Bar Association, Leadership Academy, 2019.
- Kentucky Bar Association, Young Lawyer’s Division Executive Committee, 2019.
- Louisville Bar Association, Public Service Committee, 2019.
- Kentucky Business Journal, Young Leaders Award, 2018.