Mrs. Brown served as law clerk to the late Honorable Louis J. Stefan, Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, Orphans Court, during the summer of 1990.  In 1992, she began her legal career as an associate with Clark, Ladner, Fortenbaugh & Young in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she was a member of the Litigation Department and practiced general and complex commercial litigation and bankruptcy litigation.  Mrs. Brown is admitted to practice in the Pennsylvania and New Jersey state courts, the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania and the District of New Jersey, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

In 1996, Mrs. Brown expanded her areas of practice to include municipal law, representing Pennsylvania municipalities in litigation and general municipal matters, land development and code enforcement.  She has a significant practice in the interpretation and enforcement of business privilege, mercantile, earned income, and other local taxes. Mrs. Brown is a member of the Pennsylvania Business Privilege and Mercantile Tax Collectors Association and is a regular speaker at that organization’s annual conferences.  Mrs. Brown has had the pleasure of giving a number of seminars for tax collectors and elected municipal officials on topics including local business tax litigation, validity challenges to taxing ordinances, local tax reform and local taxpayers’ rights.  She also serves as local tax hearing officer for a number of municipalities.

Mrs. Brown also represents private parties in general business, and civil and commercial litigation.

On November 8, 2005, Jenny Brown was elected Township Commissioner for Ward 2, Lower Merion Township, for the term beginning January 3, 2006.