Alum joins Jones Walker’s Miami office

A FAMU alumna is making waves at one of the Gulf South’s biggest law firms.

D. Renee Jenkins was just hired as a special counsel at Jones Walter’s Miami office. She will specialize in business and commercial litigation. Jenkins is a 1999 magna cum laude graduate of FAMU’s College of Engineering, Science, Technology, and Agricultural from which she received her B.S. in Agricultural Business.

Jenkins is experienced in a variety of real estate and foreclosure litigation, as well as insurance litigation, insurance coverage disputes, insurance defense, and bad faith litigation. Prior to joining Jones Walker, she worked as a business litigation associate at Adorno & Yoss in Fort Lauderdale. Jenkins is a 2002 graduate of the University of Miami School of Law and also served as a judicial clerk for the late Honorable Wilkie D. Ferguson in spring 2002.

Jones Walker was founded in 1937 and provides legal services to major Fortune 500 companies; money center banks and worldwide insurers; and family and emerging businesses located in the United States and abroad. Today, the firm has more than 270 attorneys in Alabama, Arizona, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.