Jennifer A. Mansfield

Jennifer A. Mansfield is a commercial litigation attorney in Holland & Knight's Jacksonville office, and a member of Holland & Knight's Healthcare & Life Sciences and Technology & Telecommunications industry teams. Ms. Mansfield has extensive experience in First Amendment law, insurance defense, Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) litigation and managed healthcare litigation. She has broad experience in state and federal trial and appellate courts.

Most recently, Ms. Mansfield has provided advice regarding event cancellation, contractual force majeure clauses and compliance with local, state and federal government edicts surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ms. Mansfield's healthcare litigation experience includes defense of ERISA welfare benefit plans, defense of managed healthcare plans, disability insurance defense and antitrust defense litigation. She also helps retirement communities navigate resident relations and contractual issues, avoiding litigation where possible, for both independent living and assisted living facilities. Part of her work has been advising facilities on compliance with Florida's statutes governing assisted living facilities, as well as providing independent incident analysis and advice during regulatory investigations.

Most recently, Ms. Mansfield's First Amendment practice has included representation in federal trial and appellate courts of a homeowner challenging a local architectural review ordinance, asserting that the architectural style of his home is expression protected by the First Amendment. In early 2020, Ms. Mansfield also helped a coalition of national and international media entities covering the financial markets to convince the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to delay implementation of a change to its lockup policies that would have substantially delayed the ability of the news organizations to publish key economic data quickly.

Ms. Mansfield's First Amendment practice also includes representing newspapers, television stations and other media entities in defense of defamation claims, prepublication review, courtroom access, Florida's Sunshine Law, and for access to public records under the Freedom of Information Act and Florida's public records laws. Ms. Mansfield has written articles on liability issues arising from social media, and has been invited to speak numerous times regarding the legal implications of social media and Internet privacy. She has also provided prepublication review of potential defamation, privacy torts and copyright issues for several documentaries, as well as opinion letters needed for the documentarians to obtain insurance coverage for their projects.

Ms. Mansfield also has experience in both federal and state courts with antitrust claims, product liability defense, enforcement of patent rights, construction defect litigation, Florida lien law, and other commercial disputes at the trial court and appellate levels.

Before joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Mansfield served for two years as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Ralph W. Nimmons, Jr., United States District Judge (deceased) for the Middle District of Florida.

Prior to her law career, Ms. Mansfield served for three years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay teaching business skills to the management of a farmers' cooperative.