Jennifer Klar is a Partner at Relman Colfax. Jennifer joined the firm in 2004. Her civil rights practice focuses on complex litigation, including class actions, multi-plaintiff cases, and cases with significant discovery. During her time at the firm, Jennifer has litigated complex civil rights cases in employment, housing, disability, and lending discrimination. For more than a decade, she led the firm’s team representing a nationwide class of African-American Special Agents of the United States Secret Service claiming racial discrimination with respect to promotion by the Secret Service. In 2017, the parties reached a settlement that included monetary relief of $24 million and wide-ranging changes to the Secret Service’s promotions practices. Jennifer is an accomplished civil rights trial lawyer. She has successfully tried numerous cases, including a victory on behalf of 67 African-American residents of Zanesville, Ohio denied water service on the basis of race for nearly 50 years, five African-American officers of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department retaliated against by their employer, and an African-American couple whose landlord removed and burned all their belongings while they were out of town. Jennifer has been repeatedly recognized by her peers for her skill and commitment in her civil rights work. She has been listed in Washingtonian’s Best Lawyers for Plaintiff-side Employment Law, selected by her peers as a Super Lawyer in Civil Rights in Washington, D.C., and included in The Best Lawyers in America™ in the field of Civil Rights Law. In 2017, she was named the Washington Metropolitan Lawyers Association’s “Lawyer of the Year.” Jennifer has twice been a finalist for Public Justice’s “Trial Lawyer of the Year,” recognizing her work on the cases in Tulia and Zanesville.