Jennifer Ide, a member of Sutherland's Litigation Practice Group, focuses her practice on complex commercial matters, energy litigation and tax controversies. She has a broad range of experience at the agency, trial and appellate levels.
Before joining Sutherland, Jennifer served as a law clerk for the Honorable Julie E. Carnes of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Jennifer is a member of Sutherland's Diversity and Inclusion Committee and participates in the steering committee for the firm's Women Attorneys Group.
Representative Experience
Jennifer's representative experience includes:
· Representing a telecommunications company in connection with multi-jurisdictional purported collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
· Obtaining a summary judgment for a client in a Title VII discrimination case and successfully defending the decision on appeal.
· Winning a motion to dismiss for a financial services company in connection with a purported FLSA collective action.
· Representing a financial services corporation in federal income tax refund actions relating to foreign tax credits.
· Successfully representing a client on an appeal in sales and use tax refund actions.
· Representing a Fortune 500 company in a breach of contract claim against the government, resulting in a settlement of more than $100 million.
· Defending a power producer in environmental litigation.
· Representing corporations in state and municipal tax refund cases involving income, ad valorem, sales and use, and occupation taxes.
· Representing electric cooperatives in Georgia Territorial Electric Service Act matters at the Public Service Commission and in the appellate courts.
· Representing electric utilities in cases against municipalities involving the assessment of franchise fees and occupation taxes.
· Representing clients in a broad range of contract and business tort matters.
Professional Honors and Awards
· Selected for Leadership Georgia (2012)
· Selected for inclusion in Georgia Super Lawyers® "Rising Stars" (2009)
Professional and Community Involvement
· Board of Directors, Georgia Association for Women Lawyers
· Member, Women and Minorities Committee, State Bar of Georgia
· Member, Litigation Section, American Bar Association
· Member, Atlanta Bar Association
· Member, Electric Cooperative Bar Association
· Member, Lawyers Foundation of Georgia
· Member, Lawyers Club of Atlanta
· Former Board Member, Young Lawyers' Division, State Bar of Georgia
· Past Member, American Inns of Court (Lamar Inn)
Recent Publications and Speaking Engagements
· Co-author, "Municipality Monopoly Is Not Fun for Everyone," Law360 (February 24, 2012)
· Co-author, "Pension Committee: Degrees of Culpability and Discovery Sanctions," Pretrial Practice & Discovery (Summer 2010)
· Co-author, Georgia Territorial Act Newsletter (August 2009)
· Co-author, Georgia Territorial Act Newsletter (January 2008)
· Author, "Diversifying Georgia's Legal Profession: A Professionalism Cause to Appreciate," Georgia Bar Journal (June 2007)
· Co-author, "Check Your Contracts Before Hurricane Season," Pipeline and Gas Journal (April 2007)
· Co-author, Georgia Territorial Act Newsletter (September 2005)
· Speaker, Webinar: "Patronage Capital Litigation" (July 20, 2010)
· Speaker, 2010 Territorial Act Seminar (March 18, 2010)
· Moderator, "On the Cusp of Change? A Supreme Court Update with Dean Erwin Chermerinsky," ABA Section of Litigation 2009 Annual Conference (April 30, 2009)
· Speaker, Georgia Electric Cooperative Legal Issue Seminar (November 7, 2008)
· Speaker, Georgia Territorial Act Seminar (April 2, 2008)
News
Synchrome Drops Hitachi From Disk Drive IP Suit
April 13, 2010 Reprinted with permission Law360, http://www.law360.com/
Legal Alerts
Legal Alert: A Decision to Phone Home About: SDNY Decertifies FLSA Opt-In Class of Call Center Reps
March 15, 2012
Legal Alert: Tenth Circuit Says Customer Is "Stuck Between a Rock and a Pile of Sewage": Tying Suit Against City Moves Forward After U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeal
February 7, 2012
Legal Alert: Sierra Club Wins Challenge to RUS Approvals of Coop Plant Expansion
April 20, 2011
Legal Alert: New Patronage Capital Case Hits North Carolina Coop
March 9, 2011
Legal Alert: Public Service Commission Affirms Hearing Officer's Decision that a Switch from Master Meter to Individual Metering of Apartments Does Not Impact Territorial Rights
September 2, 2010
Legal Alert: Sierra Club Challenges RUS Lien Accommodation Regulation
August 26, 2010
Legal Alert: Plaintiffs Re-File Patronage Capital Lawsuit in Missouri and Add Generation Cooperative as a Defendant
August 19, 2010
Legal Alert: Patronage Capital Lawsuits Against Electric Cooperatives on the Rise
August 19, 2010
Legal Alert: Plaintiff Class Sues All South Carolina Coops Over Patronage Capital
June 11, 2010
Legal Alert: Patronage Capital Lawsuits Against Electric Cooperatives on the Rise
January 28, 2010
Legal Alert: Federal Courts Conflicted on Climate Change Litigation
November 23, 2009
Legal Alert: Sierra Club Challenges RUS Coal Plant Approvals
August 10, 2009
Legal Alert: Aggrieved Bidders Under the State Purchasing Act Must File Protest Within 10 Days
July 20, 2009
Legal Advisory: Do EMC Security Deposits Provide Adequate Protection in These Economic Times?
July 8, 2009
Legal Alert: FTC Red Flag Rules Applicable to Electric Cooperatives Go Into Effect May 1, 2009
April 6, 2009
Legal Alert: Contract Required for Customer Choice Loads, But Request for Service Form May Suffice
March 18, 2009
Legal Alert: More PURPA Hearings Required on New Federal Standards
June 16, 2008
Legal Advisory: Hurricane Season is Here; Are Your Supply Contracts Ready?
September 20, 2006
Legal Alert: Georgia Court of Appeals Upholds Decision that Grandfather Rights Are Not Dependent on Most Recent Use of Premises
November 21, 2005
Publications
Municipality Monopoly Is Not Fun for Everyone
February 24, 2012 Reprinted with permission Law360
Pension Committee: Degrees of Culpability and Discovery Sanctions
Summer 2010 Reprinted with permission Pretrial Practice & Discover, Volume 18, Number 4, Summer 2010. © 2010 by the American Bar Association.
Georgia Territorial Act Newsletter
August 2009
Georgia Territorial Act Newsletter
January 2008
Diversifying Georgia's Legal Profession: A Professionalism Cause to Appreciate
June 2007 Georgia Bar Journal
Check Your Contracts Before Hurricane Season
April 2007 Pipeline and Gas Journal
Georgia Territorial Act Newsletter
September 2005
Events
Webinar: Patronage Capital Litigation
July 20, 2010
2010 Territorial Act Seminar
March 18, 2010
ABA Section of Litigation 2009 Annual Conference
April 30, 2009
Georgia Electric Cooperative Legal Issue Seminar
November 7, 2008
Georgia Territorial Act Seminar
April 2, 2008