Jennifer Berke

Jennifer is an accomplished defense attorney based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with extensive experience in insurance defense and toxic torts. She joins EGHB after successfully managing her own practice, the Law Offices of Jennifer Berke in Berkeley, CA, where she specialized in Family Law, Civil Litigation, Criminal Law, and also served as a contract attorney.

Prior to establishing her own practice, Jennifer was Vice President and In-House Counsel at DFSG, Inc. in Alameda, CA, an investment banking firm and private equity group. In this role, she was involved in providing commercial real estate financing, joint ventures, EB-5 funding, and private money. Her responsibilities included drafting contracts and financial loan documents, financial analysis, preparing loan proposals, conducting due diligence, managing client and lender relationships, underwriting, and overseeing other loan officers.

Earlier in her career, Jennifer was an Associate at Foley & Mansfield, PLLP in Oakland, CA. She was a case-handling attorney responsible for managing cases from their initial receipt through trial preparation, with significant law and motion practice, including writing and arguing motions, and extensive experience conducting depositions. Her practice there specialized in litigation with an emphasis on toxic torts, product liability, premise liability, and personal injury law. Before that, she was an Associate at C.W. Wood & Associates, P.C. in San Francisco, CA, where she also handled cases from intake to trial preparation. This role involved significant law and motion practice and extensive deposition experience, specializing in litigation with an emphasis on toxic torts, premise liability, personal injury, and bankruptcy cases. Jennifer also gained valuable experience as an Associate at Clapp, Moroney, Bellagamba & Vucinich in San Bruno, CA. There, she engaged in substantial law and motion practice, performed all phases of discovery including conducting depositions, and handled client and carrier interaction. Her practice areas included toxic torts, construction defect, personal injury, civil rights, and corporate law.

Her legal experience also includes working as a Law Clerk at the Law Offices of Brant Girard, where she drafted pleadings and motions and handled discovery in cases involving corporate law, estate planning, bankruptcy, personal injury, insurance law, and construction defect. Additionally, Jennifer served as a Judicial Extern for the Honorable Mary Jo Levinger in Santa Clara County Superior Court, where she researched and drafted bench memoranda and Court Orders, and conferred with the Judge on various legal matters.

Jennifer holds a J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law and a B.A. in Political, Legal, and Economic Analysis from Mills College in Oakland, CA.