Jennifer Winegardner,
Partner
Jennifer started her career in Cleveland, Ohio where she tried cases before the bench and jury, and argued appeals. After moving to Florida, she focused her career on commercial and property litigation, transactional work, and appeals. She has worked at small firms and large, and has represented and advised new companies as well as multi-million dollar corporations.
In 2017, she launched Winegardner Law Firm and focused her attention on estate planning after seeing first-hand how proper and thorough planning affected can make the worst times a little smoother. As a business and property attorney, estate planning allows Jennifer to offer clients a full array of planning and protection.
About Jennifer
Jennifer moved to Tallahassee in 1997 when her husband became a professor at Florida State. She became an associate at a state-wide firm and was immediately put to work on real estate and commercial litigation matters. In 2000, she accepted a clerkship with the Florida Supreme Court, where she prepared bench briefs and drafted opinions. She learned firsthand how judges view cases and make decisions. When the real estate bubble was growing in 2005, Jennifer left the Supreme Court, returned to her old firm, and focused on real estate transactional work along with commercial litigation.
Jennifer launched her firm in 2017. She became a-DBPR certified instructor, providing new homeowner association board member training, and shifted focus to business and estate planning with the goal of keeping people out of court and conflict. Jennifer was recruited to teach Legal Research and Writing as an adjunct professor at Florida State's Law School in 2019, and since then, has appeared on podcasts and at business and civic meetings to share information about the importance of business and estate planning.