Cozen O’Connor family law attorney Jennifer Brandt Has made several recent television appearances to discuss current legal issues and events. She appeared on CNN Headline News and CN8 The Comcast Network’s Your Morning to discuss the divorce case of former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey and Dina Matos McGreevey. She also appeared on Fox News Channel’s Your World with Neil Cavuto, where she discussed the case of a Missouri woman who faces a 7-day jail term for disobeying a compulsory school attendance law. In addition, Brandt visited CN8’s Art Fennel Reports on two occasions, once to discuss the case of Tricia Walsh-Smith, the playwright who lashed out at her husband on YouTube in the middle of their divorce battle, and once to discuss the case of a University of Michigan professor who accidentally gave his son a Mike’s Hard Lemonade at a baseball game, leading to the child being put in foster care for several days.
Brandt practices from the firm's Philadelphia and Cherry Hill offices, where she concentrates in family law litigation, focusing on divorce, custody and support matters at both the trial court and appellate levels. She also assists clients in adoptions and in family matters concerning incapacitated persons.
Brandt serves as a family law expert on numerous media programs, including KYW Newsradio; WPVI, WCAU and KYW television in Philadelphia; CN8 The Comcast Network; CNN; MSNBC and Fox News. She has been quoted in Main Line Today magazine and The National Law Journal. She has also served as a course instructor at Haverford Township Adult School and at Main Line School Night for Adult Learners.
Brandt was named as one of American Lawyer Media's 2004 "Lawyers on the Fast Track" and served as a judge for the 2005 "Lawyers on the Fast Track" competition. She was also named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer – Rising Star in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
Brandt is a member of the family law sections of the American, New Jersey State, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and Camden County bar associations. She is currently a member of the programming committee for the Pennsylvania Bar Association family law section. She is former chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s membership committee, a former member of its executive committee and previously served as editor of the family law section newsletter. She was a member of the Thomas J. Forkin American Inn of Court in Family Law.
A resident of Wynnewood, Pa., Brandt earned her undergraduate degree from Rutgers University (B.A., with highest honors, 1991) and her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D., 1994), where she was senior editor of the Journal of International Business Law and an Arthur Littleton Fellowship Instructor in legal research and writing. She is admitted to practice in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia.