Jeanne Ketcha Chestnut is an associate at Wong Fleming. Ms. Chestnut’s practice focuses on labor & employment law and civil litigation in both the state and federal courts.

Ms. Chestnut received her undergraduate degree from Colorado State University in 2000. She subsequently attended the Denver Paralegal Institute; receiving a paralegal certificate in 2001. She was employed as a paralegal at a Princeton law firm in its Government Procurement and Insurance Defense groups until 2003, when she began attending Seton Hall University School of Law. She received her Juris Doctorate from Seton Hall in 2006.

During law school, Ms. Chestnut interned at the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law and was a law clerk at a Trenton-area law firm.

After law school, Ms. Chestnut served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable James P. Hurley of the New Jersey Superior Court in Middlesex County. During her clerkship, Mr. Chestnut drafted numerous judicial decisions, performed legal research, prepared memoranda of law recommending dispositions of pending motions, and was responsible for the management of the Judge’s motion calendar. Additionally, Ms. Chestnut was assigned by the Court to mediate numerous small claims and landlord/tenant disputes.

Upon completing her clerkship, Ms. Chestnut was associated with an Edison-area law firm where she focused her practice on insurance related litigation. Most recently, she was an associate at a law firm in Iselin, New Jersey where her practice primarily focused on labor law and employee benefits law. She represented union clients and benefit funds in federal and state court proceedings, administrative proceedings and grievance arbitrations. She also provided counseling to union clients and their members on such matters as termination, discipline, employee handbooks, discrimination, CEPA/whistleblower, and sexual harassment.

Ms. Chestnut is licensed to practice in the States of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as in the District of New Jersey.