Jena Druck is a member of the firm’s civil litigation practice group in Hershey and concentrates her practice on health care law and litigation, including complex medical professional liability defense.
Jena graduated from the Dickinson School of Law, where she served as Associate Editor of the Arbitration Law Review’s Yearbook on Arbitration and Mediation, and was inducted as a member of the Woolsack Honor Society. While attending law school, she completed a year-long externship with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, volunteered with the Bethesda Mission Legal Intake Clinic and Wills for Heroes, and participated as a pupil member in the William W. Lipsitt and Cumberland County American Inns of Court. Through her work with Mid Penn Legal Services, Jena earned recognition as a Miller Public Interest Advocate. She was the recipient of an IOLTA Summer Fellowship, an ALI-CLE Scholastic and Leadership Award, CALI Awards for “Law and Medicine” and “Lawyering and Ethics for the Business Attorney” and the Laura Davis Jones Award for Excellence in Bankruptcy Law.
Prior to law school, Jena had a rewarding career in human services, focused primarily in the field of foster care in North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Jena is an adjunct faculty member at the Dickinson School of Law, teaching Law & Medicine, which covers the law concerning the physician-patient relationship and bioethical issues that arise in that relationship, including topics such as medical malpractice, informed consent, issues related to reproductive health, refusal of life-sustaining treatment, and death with dignity.
- Member, PBA Civil Litigation Section Council
- Member, PBA Membership Development Committee
- Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Member, Dauphin County Bar Association
- Adjunct Faculty Member, Dickinson School of Law
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court Defines Role of Trial Court in a Frye Inquiry, PBA Civil Litigation Update, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Summer 2020),
- Mental Health Professionals Have Duty to Warn Potential Targets Who Are Readily Identifiable, PBA Civil Litigation Update, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Summer 2020)
- Panel Member, “How Lawyers Use Math, Statistics, and Quantitative Principles,” Penn State Dickinson School of Law, October 30, 2018
- Pennsylvania Superior Court Affirms Dismissal of Post-Trial Motion for Failure to Obtain Notes of Testimony and Finds Issues Raised Within Them are Waived, PBA Civil Litigation Update, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Winter/Spring 2017)
- Medical Expert Testimony Across Specialties Permitted Under MCARE Act if Expert is Sufficiently Familiar with Standard of Care at Issue, PBA Civil Litigation Update, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Winter/Spring 2017)
- Massachusetts and Oregon Laws Encourage Early Resolution of Malpractice Claims: DHHS Threatens to Hinder Reform, 7 Y.B. on Arb. & Mediation 142 (2015)
- DHHS Proposes New Arbitration Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities, YAM Blog, Dec. 25, 2015
- Presenter, Medical Malpractice Colloquium with the Penn State College of Medicine at The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, 2013
- Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
- J.D., The Dickinson School of Law of The Pennsylvania State University (Woolsack Honor Society; Associate Editor, Yearbook on Arbitration and Mediation), 2016
- B.S., The Pennsylvania State University, Psychology, 2000