BIOGRAPHY - page 10
She-Hulk continued serving on the Avengers roster [Avengers (3rd series) #78-84] but things had changed for her. Jennifer was now capable of changing back to her human form again, even though she didn’t want to do so. In fact, she would even change subconsciously in her sleep. Jen’s old insecurities about the difference between Jennifer Walters and She-Hulk began to resurface, and she perhaps overcommitted to her “She-Hulk” lifestyle to reinforce the identity she preferred. She was a stalwart member of the Avengers, but the after-parties at the Mansion taxed Jarvis’ British manners and her frequent overnight guests taxed their security screenings. Back at the District Attorney’s office under Blake Tower, She-Hulk’s flamboyant style won cases for her office, but also drew tons of attention.
Eventually, the hard-partying lifestyle came back to haunt her. Jen was dumped by her Swedish supermodel boy-toy for lacking depth, and the Avengers chairs Captain America and the Wasp asked her to move out of the Mansion after abusing Avengers priority privileges, like free parking and taking advantage of Jarvis. Finally, one of her recent successes in court was overturned on 
appeal by Mallory Book of the firm GLK&H, arguing that A.D.A. Jen Walters’ status as a literal world-saving Avenger may bias the jury in favor of her case. D.A. Tower took this appeal to heart and was forced to fire Jen, for fear that all her cases, past and future, might be subject to being overturned on the same appeal.
[Note: This was, in fact, the same argument that got She-Hulk fired from the District Attorney’s office in her own series years ago. John Byrne’s “it was all a dream” return to the comic leaves it questionable whether that actually happened in continuity anymore, though.]
Distraught, Jennifer was drowning her sorrows at a bar when she was approached by Blizzard, a recent Avengers foe looking for payback. Rather than starting a fight in the bar, She-Hulk instead listened to the villain’s problems and drank him under the table. Her gamma metabolism easily outpaced Blizzard’s liver, disposing of him without a fight. Afterwards, she was approached again, this time by Holden Holliway of Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway. GLK&H was one of the 
most prestigious law firms on the east coast, and Holliway wanted to offer Jennifer a job working for him. The catch was, he specifically wanted Jennifer Walters, not She-Hulk. Jen still hesitated when it came to embracing her smaller, weaker side, but the opportunity was too good to pass up. She reluctantly agreed to Holliway’s terms never to appear as She-Hulk in the office or while representing the firm. [She-Hulk (1st series) #1]
Before work on Monday, Jennifer was having second thoughts. She tried to rationalize her concerns to Wasp and Scarlet Witch, claiming her secret identity was public knowledge and she would be vulnerable to all her enemies as “Jen Walters.” Wanda cut off her arguments by casting 
a hex which placed a cloaking spell on Jennifer. Anyone who wished “She-Hulk” harm would now be unable to recognize her as Jennifer Walters, Esq. At Timely Plaza, Jen soon realized GLK&H wasn’t exactly what she thought. Holden Holliway had opened a new division of the firm devoted entirely to superhuman law. On the one hand, GLK&H were true innovators at the law, setting ground-breaking new precedents. On the other hand, it led to a circus-like atmosphere with speedsters in the mail room, the shape-changer Ditto as a process server and the Mad Thinker’s Awesome Android as the office “gofer” named Andy. They even used Marvel Comics for legal precedent, as all comics published before 2002 were printed under the Comics Code of America, making them legal documents.
Holden introduced Jennifer to the firm’s business with her first case. Dan Jermain had been a safety inspector for RoXXon Energy Corporation when he fell into a radioactive vat to become “Danger Man”: larger, stronger and more powerful than ever! Jen was flummoxed to hear Dan wanted to sue RoXXon for his origin. Dan’s transformation was putting a strain on his marriage and his finances as he continued accidentally causing damage with his new powers. Jennifer struggled heavily to understand her client, as she personally resented her time spent as Jen Walters instead of She-Hulk. After meeting with the Jermains personally, though, Jennifer began to empathize with Dan’s problems. When his wife nearly left him, Danger Man started to have an 
atomic meltdown. She-Hulk deliberately reverted back to Jen Walters, knowing Dan wasn’t the sort of man who would allow her more vulnerable self to die in his powers’ backwash. It took weeks, but a clever manipulation of secret identity shield laws kept the jury from seeing Danger Man in all his glory; they only heard the digitally-hidden voice of Dan Jermain talking about his broken family. RoXXon paid out an $85 million settlement, and Jennifer became committed to staying the course with GLK&H. [She-Hulk (1st series) #2]
Jen got to know her fellow attorneys in superhuman law as time went on. Mallory Book (“The Face Who Never Lost a Case”) remained Jen’s rival at the firm, willing to use She-Hulk for her contacts in the superhuman fraternity but diminishing Jen Walters’ abilities as a lawyer. She moved out of Avengers Mansion and into the Excelsior, an apartment building owned by the firm to cater to their special employees and clientele. Across the hall was Augustus “Pug” Pugliese, who got into superhuman law after Spider-Man inspired him to look out for people. After Jen and Mallory sued to give a ghost the right to accuse his murderer in court, Pug and Jennifer teamed up to help Spider-Man sue J. Jonah Jameson and the Daily Bugle for all their libelous articles over the years. [She-Hulk (1st series) #3-4]
Pug was an ex-bouncer and developed a crush on Jen, willing to step up and protect her from their sometimes aggressive clients when she was her more-vulnerable self. However, at the Spider-Man trial, Jen had become reacquainted with John Jameson, Jonah’s son, and they started dating. Jen and John reminisced about their first meeting as She-Hulk and Stargod. John 
enjoyed Jen’s company in her “normal” form, and she found it oddly refreshing when her date the ex-astronaut was mobbed by fans, meaning she wasn’t the center of attention. When she had to change into She-Hulk to stop a falling building, though, Jen’s attitude changed. She-Hulk played hooky from the office for the rest of the day, enjoying a prolonged lunch date with John. She was still surprised when John let it slip that he had been enjoying himself more with Jen than She-Hulk.
In time, Holden Holliway’s true motives for recruiting Jennifer to the superhuman law firm became clear. Holden’s granddaughter Sasha Martin had bonded to an alien power glove to become Southpaw, a juvenile delinquent. The entire superhuman law firm had been a “long game” by Holden to prepare himself for the legal precedents involved when Southpaw was finally captured by the New Warriors. He pulled Jen in to represent Sasha, as She-Hulk, in order to make the biggest impression he could on the courts. Southpaw was being held in Pym Experimental Penitentiary #1, nicknamed “The Big House,” where super-villains were held at reduced stature. Holliway raised cane about a 15 year old minor like Southpaw being incarcerated with hardened super-villains, and forced the prison to release Southpaw into the custody of him and the “credited Avenger” at his firm.
Jen was furious after she realized her entire employment had been a set-up for this moment, but Holliway was only focused on his granddaughter’s well-being. Yellowjacket arrived under court order at Timely Plaza to use Pym Particles and restore Southpaw to her normal size. However, Southpaw had been part of an escape plan by the Mad Thinker, and a number of other Big House prisoners had secretly escaped at microscopic size on the skin of their visitors. When Southpaw was shot with restoring particles, the other super-villains began to grow as well. She-Hulk, 
Yellowjacket and Awesome Andy had to round up the prisoners as they slowly returned to their full size. Southpaw was compelled to stand up for her grandfather when the U-Foes threatened him, and Holden and Sasha tentatively reunited. She-Hulk saw that Holliway’s intentions had been good, and she decided to forgive him and remain at GLK&H. [She-Hulk (1st series) #5-6]
Unfortunately, that meant she was still legally responsible for Southpaw. Jen didn’t appreciate having to spend her life at work and at home watching over a juvenile super-villain so she didn’t try to escape. Holliway was trying to referee She-Hulk and Southpaw’s squabbling when GLK&H 
was visited by the Magistrati, representatives of the Living Tribunal and universal law. To Holden’s surprise, the Magistrati were prepared to induct Jennifer into their cosmic order. She-Hulk agreed and brought Southpaw along as her responsibility. Judge She-Hulk heard cosmic claims at the Star Chamber, alongside RTZ9, a Rigellian Recorder robot assigned as bailiff and court reporter.
Among the many cases Judge She-Hulk heard was that of the Recluses vs. the Watchers. An 
intensely private race, the Recluses had hidden their planet from the greater universe since the beginning of time, yet Qyre the Watcher had recently uncovered their existence and began watching. The Recluses claimed their cosmic privacy rights, unsatisfied with even the Watchers’ oath of non-interference. Because Qyre was the only Watcher who thus far had perceived the Recluses, She-Hulk ruled that the damage had been done but could be mitigated. Qyre was instructed to refrain from sharing his knowledge of the Recluses or their space sector with the other Watchers in their regular Gatherings, leaving him as isolated and alone as the Recluses he observed. The ruling seemed to satisfy the Recluses, but Jennifer earned the ire of Qyre’s cousin Zoma for silencing his friend and companion forevermore. [She-Hulk (1st series) #7]
She-Hulk’s next case seemed less cosmic, but no less important. The Elder of the Universe known as the Champion had entered and won a trial by combat on the planet Skardon, making him supreme ruler of the people. Uninterested in ruling well, Champion nevertheless defended his title against challengers like Gladiator, Beta Ray Bill and Adam Warlock, preventing the heroes from dethroning him and restoring legitimate rule to the Skard. As advocate of the Magistrati and physical powerhouse, She-Hulk was given the responsibility of winning in the boxing ring against the Champion. Jen was trounced in her initial bout and barely stayed conscious long enough to beg the Magistrati observer for time to file an appeal.
In recovery, Jennifer reflected upon the wisdom of something Pug had once said to her: She-Hulk was exponentially stronger than Jennifer Walters. Key word, exponentially. Jen normally did her strength training as She-Hulk, but if she focused on training that improved the muscle mass and 
physique of Jen Walters, that would reap exponentially greater rewards as She-Hulk. (Ask your teachers, kids – it’s basic math.) Jennifer trained for three months with Gamora, Deadliest Woman in the Universe, before facing Champion in the ring again. Her appeal succeeded as well, compelling Champion to remove his Power Gem before the match because Skardon law required fighters to confront each other un-enhanced. With her exponentially greater strength, She-Hulk defeated the Champion and turned rule of the Skard back over to its people. [She-Hulk (1st series) #8]
She-Hulk’s tour of duty with the Magistrati ended, and so she and Southpaw returned to Earth. Jen quickly realized her increased strength level was going to become a problem unless she learned how to properly cope with it. She reconnected with John Jameson, and they made a date to go see Reed Richards for a consult. As it happened, John had something to contribute to Reed’s work. Years ago, he had temporarily gained super-strength on a space mission, so Tony Stark and NASA created his “Jupiter suit” to moderate his power. Reed found it an agreeable design and modified the Jupiter suit’s fit and color for She-Hulk’s use. As She-Hulk tested her new strength limits, she made a point of questioning Reed about her recent ability to change back into 
Jen Walters. After all, it was Reed who told her after the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier incident that the radiation she was exposed to meant she would never change back again. As it happened, Ben Grimm was present to mock how many times he had heard similar statements from Reed about his own condition, and Jen and John took off before pressing Mr. Fantastic any further. The Jupiter suit got its first field test when Titania emerged from hiding to seek a revenge match against She-Hulk. Jen got rid of her rival with one punch, sending Titania flying from Manhattan all the way to New Jersey. [She-Hulk (1st series) #9]