Jennifer L. Wethington
Associate
Complex Business Litigation, Appellate Practice, Products Liability Litigation
Ms. Wethington’s practice consists of a wide variety of business-related matters resolved through litigation.
She has represented clients in a range of matters including business and commercial litigation, eminent domain proceedings, products liability actions, and insurance coverage disputes. Ms. Wethington has appeared as appellate counsel before the Supreme Court of Arkansas and the Arkansas Court of Appeals on a variety of issues including "no-injury" product defect claims, the sufficiency of the evidence and propriety of punitive damages in a wrongful death action, the constitutionality of certain regulations of the Arkansas State Plant Board, the qualifications of candidates for elective office, and the appropriate measure of just compensation to a landowner in an eminent domain case.
Ms. Wethington has recently been involved in the defense of a number of putative class actions. These matters include her representation of a publicly traded pharmaceutical company in a putative class action alleging deceptive trade practices and her defense of a title insurance company in a putative class action alleging the unauthorized practice of law. Ms. Wethington also represents manufacturers of welding consumables in several toxic tort suits alleging personal injury from exposure to welding fumes.
Ms. Wethington graduated with high honors from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law in 2002, where she served as the Notes Editor of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review. She received the Arkansas Bar Foundation Ethics Scholar Award (2002); Arkansas Bar Foundation Law Review Writing Excellence Award (2001); and "Top Paper" Awards in Administrative Law (2002), White Collar Crime (2002), Intellectual Property (2001), Legal Profession (Ethics) (2001), and Reasoning, Writing & Advocacy II (2000).
After being admitted to the Arkansas bar in 2002, Ms. Wethington served as law clerk to Chief Judge Jane A. Restani, U.S. Court of International Trade, New York, New York, from 2002-2004, where she also clerked by designation to the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits. Ms. Wethington is also licensed to practice law before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and the United States District Courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of Arkansas.
Education
University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law (J.D., with high honors, 2002)
Fulbright Fellow, Vienna, Austria (1997-98)
Hendrix College (B.A., Politics, 1997)
Associations and Affiliations
Member, American Bar Association, Arkansas Bar Association, and Pulaski County Bar Association
Publications
Note, Violence Against Women Act’s Civil Rights Remedy Exceeds Congress’s Powers to Regulate Interstate Commerce, 23 U. Ark. L. Rev. 485 (2001); Survey of Constitutional Law, 24 U. Ark. L. Rev. 905 (2002)
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