Manchester, N.H. (August 18, 2026) – The law firm of McLane Middleton is pleased to announce that Jennifer L. Parent was recognized by Benchmark Litigation in its 2026 Top 250 Women in Litigation List. The list includes individuals who have earned their place by participating in some of the most impactful litigation matters in recent history as well as by earning the hard-won respect of their peers and clients.
Jennifer is a director of the firm’s Litigation Department and chairs its Business Litigation Practice Group. She has over 30 years of experience litigating and resolving disputes for companies and business owners in a wide range of complex commercial cases and employment matters in state and federal courts in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
Jennifer is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the State Chair. She is a past President of the New Hampshire Bar Association, the National Conference of Bar Presidents, the New England Bar Association, and the New Hampshire Women’s Bar Association. She currently serves at Chair of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Bar Leadership, State Delegate to the American Bar Association House of Delegates and immediate past Chair of the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation. Within the firm, she is currently a member of the firm’s Management Committee and a former Chair of the Litigation Department as well as the Employment Law Practice Group.
Jennifer has represented companies in business litigation involving contracts, tortious interference, unfair competition, shareholder, real estate, tax abatement, eminent domain, leases, misrepresentation, and other business disputes. She has represented employers in the areas of employment discrimination, executive termination, retaliation, harassment, wrongful termination, contract, defamation, wages, trade secret, non-competition, and non-solicitation disputes. Jennifer has also represented companies in employment, tax abatement, and eminent domain matters at the administrative or agency level and conducted workplace trainings and discrimination/harassment investigations. She is also a trained mediator with extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution. Jennifer can be reached in the firm’s Manchester office at (603) 628-1360 or jennifer.parent@mclane.com.
Read more about the 2026 Benchmark Litigation Top 250 Women in Litigation list.