Jennifer K. Van Zant

Jennifer K. Van Zant


Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard LLP

Recognized since 2007

Greensboro, North Carolina

Practice Areas

Antitrust Law

Bet-the-Company Litigation

Commercial Litigation

Litigation - Antitrust

Litigation - Banking and Finance

Litigation - Securities

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Jennifer Van Zant focuses her practice on complex business litigation — the more complicated, the better. She represents businesses on a wide array of disputes before federal courts and the North Carolina Business Court, and works closely with clients to make paths toward resolution.

Jennifer has been widely recognized by clients and peers for her success in antitrust litigation, and has been included in The Best Lawyers in America© and Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business for her work in this area. Jennifer’s antitrust litigation practice includes representation of various industries, such as health care and textiles.

Jennifer has defended numerous class actions in an array of business-related cases. Her experience includes class action suits related to health care, consumer products, insurance, and antitrust.

She represents a variety of health care related organizations in an array of business disputes. Her experience includes representing health care insurance companies in disputes with providers and participants, and representing a continuing care retirement community in a dispute over enforceability of covenants. She has also represented a network of chiropractors in disputes brought by former network participants, and she represents an insurer with regard to defending against challenges to an award of a significant government contract.

Location
  • Renaissance Plaza, Suite 2000
    230 North Elm Street
    P.O. Box 26000
    Greensboro, NC 27420
Education
  • Wake Forest University, JD, graduated 1994
  • Duke University, BS, graduated 1991
Bar Admissions
  • North Carolina, United States
Affiliations
  • Antitrust Section, American Bar Association - Member
  • Litigation and Antitrust Sections, North Carolina Bar Association - Member
  • North Carolina Business Court Rules Committee - Chair
  • Joseph Branch Inn of Court - President, Board of Directors
  • NC State Board of Certified Public Accountant Examiners - Member
  • Backpack Beginnings - Member, Board of Directors
  • Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference - Permanent Member
Court Admissions
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit
  • U.S. District Court - Western District of NC
  • U.S. District Court - Eastern District of NC
  • U.S. District Court - Middle District of NC
Federal Clerkships
  • United States District Court

Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2025 - Litigation - Securities Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2024 - Litigation - Antitrust Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2023 - Litigation - Securities Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2022 - Litigation - Banking and Finance Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2021 - Litigation - Antitrust Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2020 - Litigation - Securities Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2018 - Litigation - Antitrust Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2017 - Bet-the-Company Litigation Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2015 - Litigation - Antitrust Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2014 - Litigation - Securities Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2012 - Litigation - Antitrust
Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
  • Litigation - Securities, Triad (2025)
  • Litigation - Antitrust, Triad (2024)
  • Litigation - Securities, Triad (2023)
  • Litigation - Banking and Finance, Triad (2022)
  • Litigation - Antitrust, Triad (2021)
  • Litigation - Securities, Triad (2020)
  • Litigation - Antitrust, Greensboro (2018)
  • Bet-the-Company Litigation, Greensboro (2017)
  • Litigation - Antitrust, Greensboro (2015)
  • Litigation - Securities, Greensboro (2014)
  • Litigation - Antitrust, Greensboro (2012)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 for work in:
  • Antitrust Law
  • Bet-the-Company Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Litigation - Antitrust
  • Litigation - Banking and Finance
  • Litigation - Securities
Special Focus:
  • COVID-19
Awards:
  • Recognized in Super Lawyers Business Edition for Business Litigation (2015)
  • Named one of North Carolina Lawyers Weekly's "Women of Justice" (2019)
  • Recognized as a North Carolina Lawyers Weekly "Leader in the Law" (2022)
  • Recognized in North Carolina Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters) in Business Litigation (2010-2023); Top 50 Women Lawyers (2012-2022); Top 10 (2022); Top 100 (2012, 2014-2019, 2021, 2023); “Rising Star” (2009)
  • Recognized by Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business for Antitrust Litigation (2008-2023)
  • Recognized by her peers for inclusion in Business North Carolina's "Legal Elite" in Antitrust Law (2010), Litigation (2018, 2020-2021, 2023), Appellate (2021) and Young Guns (2008); also permanently recognized in the "Legal Elite Hall of Fame" for Antitrust Law
  • Recognized in Benchmark Litigation as a “Rising Star” (2011-2014), a "Future Star" (2015, 2017), a "Local Litigation Star" in Competition/Antitrust (2017-2023) and Top 250 Women in Litigation (2015-2021)
  • Named one of Triad Business Journal's "Outstanding Women in Business" (2016)

Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Litigation - Health Care
  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants

Publications

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