Jeanne Ketcha Chestnut

Jeanne Ketcha Chestnut is an associate with the firm.

Jeanne graduated from Colorado State University in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a minor in History. She subsequently attended the Denver Paralegal Institute, receiving a paralegal certificate in 2001. She was employed as a paralegal at a Princeton law firm in its Government Procurement and Insurance Defense groups until 2003, when she began attending Seton Hall University School of Law. She received her J.D. from Seton Hall in 2006.

During law school, Jeanne interned at the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law and was a law clerk at a Trenton-area law firm that focused on labor law.

After law school, Jeanne served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable James P. Hurley of the New Jersey Superior Court in Middlesex County. Upon completing her clerkship, Jeanne was associated with an Edison-area law firm where she focused her practice on insurance related litigation. Most recently, she was an associate at a law firm in Iselin, New Jersey where her practice primarily focused on labor law and employee benefits law. She represented union clients and benefit funds in federal and state court proceedings, administrative proceedings and grievance arbitrations. She also provided counseling to union clients and their members on such matters as termination, discipline, employee handbooks, discrimination, CEPA/whistleblower, and sexual harassment law.

Jeanne resides in South Jersey with her husband and son. Jeanne is licensed to practice in the States of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as in the District of New Jersey.