University of Georgia
School of Law
Athens, GA 30602
United States
B.A., University of Pennsylvania
J.D., University of Georgia
Advanced Legal Writing
Jennifer Tourial graduated from the University of Pennsylvania magna cum laude in 1990 with a degree in history and a minor in French. She was a Ben Franklin Scholar and in the General Honors program. Tourial then graduated cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1994, where she was on the Georgia Law Review editorial board and received a Law School Association merit-based scholarship.
After law school, she practiced law for 12 years at Holland & Knight in Atlanta, with a focus on product liability litigation. While she was practicing at Holland & Knight, Tourial served as an adjunct professor of legal writing at the Emory University School of Law. She later taught first-year legal research, writing, and advocacy at Emory. Throughout her career, Tourial has written briefs for several small firms in Atlanta and Decatur. Tourial is currently an administrative law judge.