Jennifer Wolfe is a forward thinking, innovative, award winning attorney and executive leader. She has built a reputation for creative thinking and problem solving as part of a team with a down to business approach to everything she does. Also nationally accredited in public relations and a successful entrepreneur, Wolfe brings a unique perspective to legal counsel unmatched by lawyers inside traditional firms.
Wolfe represents Fortune 500 clients in leading and negotiating technology outsourcing agreements, licensing agreements, and evaluating and managing intellectual property strategy campaigns. She also provides value added consulting on best practices in contract management and innovation within legal departments. Wolfe is co-authoring a book entitled, Brand Rewired, on innovation, branding and intellectual property strategy scheduled to be released by Jon Wiley & Sons in May of 2010.
Wolfe is published regularly in the Cincinnati Business Courier on the topics of strategic planning, negotiation and communication and in Cincinnati Woman Magazine on topics relating to women in business and the law, as well as commentaries on being a working mother. She is a regular legal columnist in Pink, a national magazine targeted to women business owners and executives. She provides continuing education to organizations throughout the country on a variety of topics, most notably negotiation, best practices in contract management, branding and innovation.
Wolfe has been named one of Cincinnati's Top Professionals Under 40 by the Cincinnati Business Courier and Inspire Magazine, one of the city's Top 10 Women Attorneys by Women's Business Cincinnati two years in a row, a Leading Lawyer by Cincy Business Magazine four years in a row, one of Cincinnati's Top 15 Women to Watch by The Cincinnati Enquirer, one of Cincinnati's Top 10 Inspiring Women for 2007 by Inspire Magazine and named Entrepreneur of the Month by Cincy Magazine. She has served on the Small Business Advisory Council of the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and volunteered in a number of other organizations. She has also been inducted as a Fellow into the Cincinnati Bar Association Academy of Leadership for Lawyers and named a Rising Star by the YWCA. In addition, Wolfe, LPA, has been named Woman Owned Business of the Year by the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce.
Wolfe's commitment to service extends from her clients to the community. She has served two times as President of the Greater Cincinnati Venture Association where she works to bring venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and service providers together to foster entrepreneurial growth. She is a founding member of the Athena PowerLink program in Cincinnati. She volunteers with the American Red Cross Cincinnati Chapter, where she has served on the Board of Trustees and for whom she chaired a signature fundraising event, "An Evening with Mary Matalin and James Carville". Wolfe served on the Board of the Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky Film Commission and has twice chaired their signature fundraising event.
Prior to attending law school, Wolfe worked as the Marketing & Communication Director for Reach Publishing where she managed marketing, public relations, advertising and franchise relations for the national company.
Wolfe received her Juris Doctorate and Masters Degree in Organizational Communication from the University of Cincinnati, graduated magna cume laude in journalism from Ball State University and has been trained at Harvard Law School in negotiation and mediation.