Jennifer Lagerquist joined Altman Riley Esher LLP in August of 2006. After she graduated from William and Mary School of Law in the summer of 2005, she moved to Boston where she worked as an attorney in the hearing department of a fast-paced firm specializing in insurance fund recovery.

Ms. Lagerquist graduated in the top 10% of her law school class and served as Articles Editor of the William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review. In law school, Ms. Lagerquist strengthened an interest in property law, civil rights, and environmental justice through research on issues of property rights in water and environmental justice. She also attended national and international conventions on environmental law in Washington D.C., and Nairobi, Kenya and worked as a volunteer for Student Legal Services,

Ms. Lagerquist worked during law school with the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, D.C. on issues including wetlands protection post the landmark SWANCC decision, the Beach Act, and regulation of publicly owned treatment works. She also ventured into federal government as a summer honors clerk at the Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters in Washington, D.C. There she reviewed basic administrative law issues such as application of the Freedom of Information Act, as well as more complex political issues arising out of international rights in the sea.

Ms. Lagerquist comes to law from a diverse background in the arts and sciences. As an undergraduate at Yale University, she studied environmental biology while earning a Bachelor of Arts in the History of Art. Throughout college she was involved with YaleDancers, a student-run performance group, as dancer, choreographer, and board member. She worked with the community through YaleDancers and T.I.E.S. as tutor and mentor to local elementary school kids. After graduation she worked as a private tutor in New York City while she continued to dance and study through NYU's dance program at Tisch School of The Arts. There she worked with scholar and author Deborah Jowitt and renowned dancers such as Gus Solomans Jr. and Phyllis Lamhut. She continued to pursue research with a study of the political pressures on the arts in pre-Nazi Germany. Her passionate involvement and collaboration through dance and education have complimented a creative and client-centered approach to legal representation.