JENNIFER L. CASSEL, Associate Publications Chicago Office Office: (312) 840-7206 Fax: (312) 840-7306 Email: jcassel@jenner.com  Add to Outlook Contacts

Jennifer L. Cassel is an associate in Jenner & Block's Chicago office.  Ms. Cassel is a member of the Firm's Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Law Practice.

Prior to joining Jenner & Block, Ms. Cassel completed a PILI Fellowship at the Chicago Legal Clinic.  During her Fellowship, Ms. Cassel drafted comments on a Clean Air Act New Source Review permit and prepared manuals on how to use Guatemalan and Honduran environmental laws to protect the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.  Ms. Cassel was a summer associate at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago in 2006, and before attending law school, Ms. Cassel wrote and edited grant proposals for medical research.  

Ms. Cassel earned her B.A. in International Studies, with general and departmental honors and Phi Beta Kappa, in 2000 from Vassar College.  She was awarded the Vassar Maguire Fellowship in 2000 and 2001 for study in Mexico.  Ms. Cassel  received her M.S. in anthropology from the Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mexico, in 2004, where she was valedictorian of her Masters program.  She received her J.D., cum laude, from Northwestern University School of Law in 2008, where she served as an executive articles editor for the Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights, and as a student attorney with the Bluhm legal clinic.  During law school, Ms. Cassel also served as a teaching assistant for Richard J. Hoskins in civil procedure and interned at the Environmental Law and Policy Center.

Ms. Cassel is a member of the Illinois Bar and is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.