Biography
Jennifer Sebor joins JC Law after an extensive career as a health law attorney, litigator, and non-profit leader. She earned her J.D. degree from the University of Maryland School of Law and her B.S. in Psychology from Virginia Tech (Honors).
While at the University of Maryland School of Law, Jennifer was chosen as a scholar in the law school’s nationally renowned Law and Health Care Program. Jennifer concurrently earned a certificate in Law and Health Care. This is a multi-disciplinary program combining experiential learning through clinics, research, and writing with the nation’s leading faculty in health law. Upon completing this extensive coursework, Jennifer became recognized by the health law community as possessing a specialized level of expertise in the health law field.
Jennifer’s Health Law thesis capstone project required her to write, defend, and publish a thesis project on FDA Law in front of the medical school faculty.
For years during and following law school, Jennifer worked for the international law firm Arnold & Porter, beginning her law career at their Washington, D.C. office. Jennifer then moved to McLean, Virginia, where she specialized in biotechnology and technology transfer agreements while working closely with Arnold and Porter’s technology partners.
Jennifer gained legal writing and litigation experience as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Judge Toni E. Clarke of the Circuit Court of Maryland. Following her judicial clerkship, Jennifer held a position in the in-house counsel department of the Discovery Channel. After admittance to the Maryland Bar, Jennifer joined the boutique family law litigation firm Silverstein and Ostovitz as a senior associate.
For then a decade, Jennifer has served as a Congressional Advocate with the National Brain Tumor Society (NBTS). She travels to D.C. every spring to lobby for increased federal funding for brain tumor patients and their families. Jennifer heads the Maryland Delegation, where she trains and leads families as they navigate Capitol Hill to share their stories of living with brain tumors with members of Congress.
Jennifer recognizes that the law should be accessible to all and has extensive pro bono experience, serving as first chair at the HIV Litigation Clinic at the University of Maryland School of Law. Jennifer has also donated pro bono hours to the federal death penalty project in D.C. while at Arnold and Porter, as well as pro bono hours for Maryland Volunteer Lawyers, House of Ruth, and Hopeworks.
Jennifer’s experience with the National Brain Tumor Society led her to serve on the board of the Foundation to Advance Clinical Trials (FACT), a non-profit organization created to help those living with cancer and neurological disease find and participate in clinical trials.
An avid lifelong equestrian, Jennifer was a student athlete at Virginia Tech, where she was on the Virginia Tech equestrian team. Jennifer has continued her love of riding as an adult and teaches the next generation of young riders at Morningside Stables in Maryland.
Jennifer has one son, Ethan, who is following in his mother’s footsteps and in his One L year at Wake Forest University School of Law in North Carolina.
Education
- University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland
- J.D. (Law & Health Care Concentration and Certificate, A + FDA Law, Top 10% of class)
- Virginia Tech
- B.S. (Honors, Dean’s List)
Admissions and Bar Memberships
- Maryland State Bar Association
- Howard County Bar Association
- Women’s Bar Association