Jennifer Ann Cupples

Jennifer is an Attorney with Altior Law.  She has experience handling complex commercial litigation, business law, real estate transactions, and estate planning/probate matters.  Jennifer also has experience with providing general counsel services and advice to various Metro-Detroit area businesses, assisting with corporate entity organization and governance, financing matters, acquisitions/sales, licensing, and day-to-day administrative matters.   Her experience specifically includes analysis, negotiation, preparation, and litigation of contracts and transactional documents, litigation of fraud/misrepresentation matters, due diligence review, investment/loan analysis and documentation, and liquor license transactions.  Jennifer’s experience also includes providing legal services and business advice to public pension systems as special counsel relating to various areas of law, including, but not limited to: complex commercial litigation, and Freedom of Information Act and Open Meetings Act matters.

Jennifer is an Oakland County Bar Foundation Fellow, a professional distinction limited to less than 5% of the total active membership of the State Bar of Michigan who practice in Oakland County.  She is also a member of the Young Lawyers, Probate & Estate Planning, and Business Law Sections of the State Bar of Michigan, President of the Incorporated Society of Irish American Lawyers (ISIAL), and a member of the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association.  Jennifer is also a past Associate Member of the Michigan Association of Public Employee Retirement Systems (MAPERS).

Jennifer is admitted to practice in the State of Michigan; U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan; and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan.  Jennifer has also been admitted pro hac vice in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Florida, Miami Division; the Circuit Court of St. Louis County, State of Missouri; and the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming.

Jennifer is active in the Michigan State University Alumni Association and MSU Alumni of Metro Detroit (Detroit Spartans), and has volunteered as a Moot Court Judge for the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law.  Focus: Hope and Mariners Inn volunteer is also on the list of her professional activities.  While studying at UDM Law Jennifer was an active member of the Women’s Law Caucus, Incorporated Society of Irish American Lawyers, and the Environmental Law Society.  

Before joining Altior Law, Jennifer worked at a medium sized firm in Livonia specializing in complex commercial litigation.  Prior to that, Jennifer worked at a small Detroit firm specializing in public pension system representation, business and real estate law. 

During law school, Jennifer worked as a law clerk for a small Troy, Michigan firm which focused its practice on civil litigation, insurance defense, contract, tort, family, and construction law matters.  During a summer in law school, she was a judicial intern for Oakland County Circuit Court, Family/Probate Division Judge Linda S. Hallmark.  

Outside of work, Jennifer enjoys spending time with her family, friends and her dog, a puggle named Bella.  She also enjoys being outdoors, long walks with her dog, testing brews at local pubs, trying out food at new restaurants around town, checking out the wines and scenery at vineyards Up North, and catching a Red Wings or Tigers game in the D.  Jennifer likes to be out on the water at any chance she can get (whether that means boating on a lake or kayaking/lazy tubing down a river) and likes to relax by doing yoga.  She is also an eclectic music lover, and enjoys travel to warm beach getaways - though she still has on her bucket list to explore various parts of the U.S. and Europe.