BIOGRAPHY - page 16
Jennifer’s next role was acting as pro bono council for Luke Cage and his newly-minted Mighty Avengers volunteer organization. Run through charitable donations, Jennifer helped establish the legal groundwork for the non-for-profit venture. She also got to hit stuff. Jessica Jones-Cage was frosty at first over She-Hulk and Cage having dated once, but they quickly bonded over making Luke uncomfortable. As a field responder for the Mighty Avengers, She-Hulk also got to fight 
W.E.S.P.E., the European science-terrorists, and ancient elemental life-vampires known as the Deathwalkers. She had an interesting team-up with Monica Rambeau while fighting Doctor Positron. Monica, now called Spectrum, transformed into gamma radiation to bolster She-Hulk’s powers. What emerged was a super-charged She-Hulk with a symbiotic living energy signature coursing through her. [Mighty Avengers (2nd series) #4-14]
Meanwhile, Jen was coming up on her annual performance review at Paine & Luckberg, LLP. Despite her commitments with the Avengers and Fantastic Four, Jennifer had racked up a truly impressive amount of billable hours for her law firm. At the review, however, the partners quickly made it clear that Jen had not lived up to their expectations of her as an associate. They thought it 
had been understood that Jennifer was meant to contribute her connections to the firm, bringing in business from the likes of Tony Stark, Danny Rand or the Fantastic Four. Her failure to complete this unspoken expectation meant she would not receive a bonus. The partners’ disrespect and casual dismissal of her hard work as an attorney led Jennifer to turn in her resignation, effective immediately. A chance encounter with the widow of a criminal scientist with a legitimate complaint against a Stark subsidiary fueled Jen’s fire and convinced her to open up her own practice. [She-Hulk (3rd series) #1]
Jennifer set up her office in DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), Brooklyn, at an office cooperative. Her landlady, Sharon King, rented to powered and otherwise unusual folks as a rule, given their difficulty getting leases or insurance in other office space. Jen hired an assistant and paralegal named Angie Huang (along with her monkey, Hei Hei), and began trying to drum up business. Unfortunately, Paine & Luckberg had been calling around, blackballing her with her previous clients. Still, after a night out drinking with Patsy Walker, she found Hellcat was spiraling a bit herself trying to make ends meet. Jen also took on Patsy as an investigator to help service her clients… once she found any. [She-Hulk (3rd series) #2]
Jen’s first major case was an interesting one – an asylum claim by Kristoff Vernard, adopted son of Victor von Doom and heir to the throne of Latveria. Kristoff was interested in becoming his own man, not merely a puppet to perpetuate his father’s rule. Jennifer was convinced Kristoff was sincere but ran into a roadblock when she learned how long he had already been in the United States. Kristoff’s asylum claim legally needed to be filed within 24 hours to be valid, making them pressed for time. Doctor Doom also became aware of his heir’s intentions and used Doombots in an effort to stop the emergency hearing. Despite these setbacks, Jennifer successfully argued for asylum before the judge and received a verdict in Kristoff’s favor. Doom rejected the court’s 
authority and had Kristoff kidnapped back to Latveria immediately afterwards. In zealous representation for her client, Jennifer entered Latveria under an alias and stormed Castle Doom on Kristoff’s behalf. She-Hulk engaged in dialogue with Doctor Doom and helped him see he was stifling the independent spirit Kristoff would one day need, not as his heir, but as a ruler himself. [She-Hulk (3rd series) #3-4]
Next, Jen had Patsy and Angie help her look into “the Blue File.” More of a curiosity than a real case, it represented an action by one George Saywitz against She-Hulk, along with a fantastic list of co-defendants including Wyatt Wingfoot, Anthony Druid, Monica Rambeau, Tigra, the super-villains Shocker and Vibro, and the little-regarded hero Nightwatch. All the Blue File contained was a single motion for change of venue of the suit from North Dakota, which She-Hulk uncovered misfiled in a random clerk box by mistake. She had no recollection of the events alluded to in the suit and could find no other evidence of the suit existing, either in New York or North Dakota.
Angie traveled to North Dakota to look for a paper trail in the Divide County courthouse, while Hellcat reached out to Tigra. Greer also had no recollection of the suit but, when Patsy mentioned the plaintiff’s name, Tigra suddenly went glassy-eyed and attacked her. After nearly eviscerating Hellcat, Tigra was prepared to jump to her death before Patsy’s stopped her. She-Hulk reached a dead end with Shocker, but met at her offices with Dr. Kevin Trench, Nightwatch. Kevin had retired from super-heroing to engage in charity work and his medical practice. She-Hulk and Nightwatch were attacked by demonic imps of some sort, who were fixated on Jennifer. Nightwatch pulled her from their swarming into the dimensional folds of his cape for safety before releasing her. The imps vanished but, after the damage and repairs for the building starting seeping into her rainy-day funds, Jennifer decided to call it quits. When Angie returned from North Dakota with word about some form of reality-warping linked to the destruction of an entire town, Jennifer sternly dismissed Angie and told her they were done looking into the Blue File. [She-Hulk (3rd series) #5-6]
Jennifer soon found herself with a surprising new client: Steve Rogers. An old man’s death bed confessional led to a civil suit for wrongful death accusing Steve of negligence in the death of the man’s brother, before Steve joined Project: Rebirth and became Captain America. The media surrounding the case threatened the legacy of Captain America and his reputation, as Cap had recently lost his Super-Soldier Serum and now showed all of his 90+ years of age. Cap hired Jen to be his defender, but his stalwart devotion kept her from performing many traditional legal tactics to stall the case or discredit witnesses. Steve was adamant about beating the suit fairly and above board, to prevent the public from losing faith in him.
Jen and her team traveled out to Los Angeles for the case, where she was surprised to learn Matt Murdock was bringing the case on behalf of the victim’s family. She was even more surprised when she learned Steve put him up to it. As the case unfolded, the jury heard how the late complainant had joined fifth columnists before America entered the war, and the complainant’s brother came west with Steve Rogers to talk him out of it. They were captured by the Nazi in 
charge and, when Steve refused to show fear or weakness before the spy, the Nazi executed Steve’s friend as a show of force. Once the full circumstances were before the jury, they found Steve Rogers not guilty. Afterwards, Steve explained to Jen and Matt that he knew the whole thing was a plot orchestrated by his enemy, the criminal psychiatrist Doctor Faustus. The doctor arranged for the death bed confessional (all true but with key details left out) in an effort to discredit Steve’s legacy. [She-Hulk (3rd series) #7-10]
[Note: The circumstances surrounding this case showed that Jennifer had not kept up with her continuing legal education and licensure in California since moving East and was no longer barred to practice law in California.]
Although she had abandoned her efforts to unlock the secret of the Blue File, Titania and her friend Volcana were hired to deter She-Hulk from looking into the case further. Angie and Hei Hei revealed previously unknown magical powers to help Jen and Hellcat fight off the super-villains. Once the fighting was over, Angie told a confused Jennifer she had continued investigating the Blue File after being told to stop. Angie uncovered that Nightwatch was actually responsible for everything that had happened. Originally a super-villain known as Nighteater, Kevin Trench sacrificed an entire town in an occult spell to re-write reality, making it so everybody remembered him as a minor hero named Nightwatch instead. George Saywitz was the sole survivor of the 
town, but the same spell that destroyed the town also wiped all memory of it, making his suit hard to prosecute. Nightwatch had him killed but failed to account for the venue notice in the Blue File when covering his tracks. He had also cast a geas over She-Hulk during the imp attack on her office, compelling her to end her search back then. That geas allowed him to force She-Hulk into attacking her friends, but she overcame his compulsion with Angie’s help, and Nightwatch/eater was defeated. [She-Hulk (3rd series) #11-12]
An organized campaign against the original Fantastic Four left them in dire straits, and She-Hulk’s replacement FF were called upon several times to assist them against different threats. Jen also defended the Fantastic Four in a civil suit charging them with recklessly endangering the city of New York and their children. She casually caught up with Wyatt Wingfoot and compared notes about the hidden malice behind the FF’s troubles. [Fantastic Four (5th series) #4-5, 11] When a new Hulk personality named Doc Green emerged, he went on a Quixotic quest to cure other gamma mutates to rid the world of these living weapons. Green successfully depowered Red 
Hulk, Red She-Hulk, A-Bomb and others on his mission. The Avengers feared Doc Green would come for She-Hulk next, and Earth’s heroes rallied around Jen in her defense. In the end, however, Doc Green revealed he thought She-Hulk was the best of all the gamma mutates, and had no intention of taking her powers. Instead, he gave her the mean to stop HIM, if it ever became necessary. [Hulk (3rd series) #12-15]
Following a battle on Genosha, many of Earth’s heroes and villains were inverted to their opposite natures, including Luke Cage and the Falcon, now acting as Captain America. This created strife among the Mighty Avengers organization as Luke greedily tried to sell the Mighty Avengers brand he had started to Cortex Incorporated in order to feed his new desire for material wealth over helping people. She-Hulk revealed that the takeover attempt was a failure, however – she had 
gotten Luke to sign documents early on which designated every member of the field team an equal share owner in the business, making it bigger than any one person. Luke signed whatever Jen put in front of him, because he trusted her to do what was right. Ultimately, he ended up protecting the business from himself. [Captain America and the Mighty Avengers #1-3]
She-Hulk and the Avengers investigated Cortex and discovered the already-evil business had been co-opted by creatures From Beyond. They defeated the Beyond Corporation, but this incursion from another reality was only the tip of the iceberg at that moment. [Captain America and the Mighty Avengers #4-7] The entire multiverse was under threat, with worlds colliding, Earths being sacrificed and the untimely death of all things racing into the present. A group of scientists (including Reed Richards, Tony Stark and Doc Green) had hidden this fact from the world, and even wiped Steve Rogers’ memories so their Illuminati could pursue the threat in secret. Once he found out, Steve commandeered S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers to bring the Illuminati to justice for their betrayal. She-Hulk and the Mighty Avengers reluctantly allowed themselves to be conscripted in Rogers’ war but, in the end, the Incursions brought an end to their world anyway. Jen died in the final Incursion between Earth-616 and Earth-1610, along with everything else that ever existed. [Time Runs Out, Secret Wars #1]