Education
Juris Doctor, Magna Cum Laude, University of Miami School of Law, 1998
Bachelor of Science, Cornell University, 1995
Bar Admissions
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Florida (inactive)
Associations
Hampden County Bar Association
Massachusetts Bar Association
The Florida Bar
Jennifer Rao
Attorney
Email: jrao@markeybarrett.com
Jennifer S. Rao is the firm’s senior litigation associate. She focuses on construction defect and premises liability litigation. Her litigation experience spans a full range of commercial litigation subjects and includes both trial and appellate level work in state court, as well as federal court experience.

She joined the firm in the summer of 2024, bringing her extensive litigation experience to the personalized and client-centric environment of our firm. She honed her legal skills as an associate at a specialty commercial litigation firm and at a large national firm. Her law school honors include the Dean’s List, Dean’s Honor Scholarship, Order of the Coif, and Dean’s Certificates of Achievement for Outstanding Performance in Civil Procedure II, Litigation Skills I Pretrial, and International Law. She also served as an Associate Editor of the University of Miami Inter-American Law Review.