Experience

Jennifer S. Queen has more than 20 years of experience in the legal community. For the last 16 years, she has been responsible for leading the firm's attorney recruiting, hiring and diversity efforts, as well as overseeing the firmwide professional development program. She works closely with senior firm management to develop long-term lateral recruitment and retention strategies and also supports the growth and expansion plans of practice groups. In 2006, she organized the firm's Hiring & Professional Development Task Force that focused on strengthening the firm's retention and development efforts. As a result, in 2007, the firm implemented a merit-based evaluation system of promoting associates based on well-defined core competencies and aligning associate compensation and billing rates based on those competencies, rather than years out of law school. In addition, Queen built the Professional Development department that is responsible for the associate evaluation process, the mentor program and the wide-range of training the firm provides to attorneys, lobbyists and other professionals.

Queen is currently serving a two-year term on the NALP (the Association for Legal Career Professionals) Board of Directors. She was also a member of the 1998-1999 NALP Board of Directors and has served NALP as a Chair and a Vice-Chair of the Annual Education Conference Planning Committee, a Regional Coordinator, a member of the Nominating Committee, and a member of the Educational Program Advisory Council and the Task Force on Women in Leadership. She has served as both President and Vice-President of the Atlanta Legal Recruitment Association. She is actively involved in her community and serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for Inner Harbour, a residential treatment center for troubled youth in Georgia.

Prior to joining the firm, she was a paralegal and also worked in legal marketing.

Education

• Paralegal Certificate, National Center for Paralegal Training
• B.B.A, University of Texas, Austin

* Non-attorney professional