CHICAGO, November 12, 2025—Duane Morris partner Jennifer A. Riley has been chosen as a winner of Law360’s MVP of the Year Award in the Employment category. For the 15th year, Law360 has selected attorneys who had the biggest wins and made the most significant contributions to their practice groups in the past year.
Riley’s recent work with Geico, Fast Pace Health and EmployBridge were among the accomplishments that earned her the MVP of the Year honor. "I really pride myself on being able to tackle and solve the largest and toughest problems for my client," Riley said in her interview with Law 360. "It's really coming up with these strategies to succeed, whether it's on certification or on the merits, or finding ways to build leverage and finding ways to identify an off-ramp."
Jennifer A. Riley, vice chair of Duane Morris’ Class Action Defense Team, has defended companies faced with significant complex litigation matters for more than two decades. Riley regularly defends companies facing class actions, collective actions, pattern or practice lawsuits and other types of representative proceedings, ranging in size from dozens to tens of thousands of claims. Working on the forefront of the developing law in an ever-changing arena, Riley regularly develops strategies for navigating some of the largest challenges faced by corporate America today and counsels employers confronted with a range of complex theories that span from claims of discrimination or sexual harassment to myriad types of alleged wage-and-hour and statutory privacy violations. Riley develops and employs strategies to navigate and to defend complex actions at inception, including strategies to fracture large-scale actions and structure creative solutions. She has represented clients facing bet-the-company cases in a wide range of complex civil litigation matters in federal and state courts across the country.
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