A significant portion of Annie’s practice relates to products liability defense and mass torts. She has experience guiding clients through complex, multi-jurisdiction litigation, including cases formally consolidated through the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, state-court litigation proceedings alongside an active multidistrict proceeding, and informally coordinated litigation. Annie has also been involved with complex civil litigation in other substantive areas, including numerous healthcare and False Claims Act cases.
A member of several trial teams, Annie has represented clients at all stages of litigation—from a jury trial in Illinois federal court against private plaintiffs pursuing high-stakes claims under the False Claims Act; to an RMBS trial in New York City where she represented a multi-national financial institution in a fraud case brought by a bond insurer; to defense of a pharmaceutical company at a Hatch-Waxman trial.
Annie is a member of the firm’s Women’s Initiative and of the Hiring Committee. She joined the firm in 2018 after clerking for the Honorable Susan H. Black on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and for the Honorable Robin L. Rosenberg on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. A native Floridian, Annie received her Juris Doctor and a Masters in International and Comparative Law with honors from the Duke University School of Law.
Representative Experience
Though all cases vary and none is predictive, Annie’s experience includes:
- Representation of a pharmaceutical company in a federal MDL and associated state court proceedings alleging personal injury. After multiple days of hearings, the MDL judge granted Defendants’ Daubert motions on general causation in their entirety, finding in a 341-page ruling that “no scientist outside this litigation” has concluded that the medication causes cancer.
- Representation of a corporation in a multi-week jury trial in a False Claims Act case in Illinois federal court that culminated in a defense verdict.
- Representation of a multi-national financial institution in a state court bench trial on fraud claims brought by a bond insurer.
- Representation of a pharmaceutical company in a Hatch-Waxman trial.