Anne strategically advises employers on compliance with employment laws and defends employers in court, arbitration, and before agencies including the EEOC, DOL, NLRB, and VOSH/OSHA.
Get To Know Anne
Anne focuses her practice on labor and employment law, alternative dispute resolution, commercial litigation, tax litigation, and the emerging cannabis industry. She advises clients on the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), discrimination and harassment, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), disability law, labor relations, employment agreements, and other labor and employment matters, and conducts workplace investigations. She is an experienced litigator. She also serves as an arbitrator and mediator and is an American Arbitration Association (AAA) Employment Law Arbitrator. She represents businesses in responding to citations from VOSH/OSHA. Anne regularly represents clients in various industries, including federal contractors, construction, maritime, and higher education.
As an advocate, Anne represents clients in arbitrations and mediations involving employment, labor, and commercial disputes. She also serves as a neutral in arbitrations and mediations in employment, commercial, and consumer cases. She is on the AAA’s Employment Law Panel as an arbitrator.
Anne frequently appears in federal and state courts representing clients in employment, labor, commercial, tax, and other disputes.
Anne lives in Virginia Beach, where she grew up, with her wonderful husband and their three awesome sons.
When she's not practicing law, she's on a long run or trying to train the family dog.
Experience
- Won a jury trial in a multi-party suit involving claims of business conspiracy, tortious interference with contract, and other business torts.
- Won a jury trial in a tax refund suit involving the trust fund recovery penalty.
- Won demurrer in a multi-party suit involving business tort claims between multiple federal contractors.
- Won an arbitration involving age and disability discrimination claims.
- Won an arbitration involving education disability discrimination claims.
- Won several labor arbitrations involving employee discharges.
Credentials
Recognition
Education
William & Mary School of Law, J.D.
William & Mary, B.A.
Admissions
Virginia
District of Columbia
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia
U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia
U.S. District Court, Western District of New York
U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Virginia
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court
Affiliations
- American Arbitration Association, Panel Member, Employment Law Arbitration
- American Bar Association
- City of Norfolk Grievance Panel
- Eastern Shore Chapel, Parish Chancellor
- Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia, Chancellor
- Hampton Roads Society for Human Resource Management, Past President
- I’Anson-Hoffman Inn of Court
- Norfolk & Portsmouth Bar Association, President
News & Insights
Multimedia
Other Publications & Media
- Co-author. “New Employment Laws for 2024, State-by-State Legislative Update.” DRI Employment Committee, January 2024.
- Co-author. “Employment: North America, USA – Virginia.” Lexology Getting the Deal Through, September 19, 2023.
- Co-author. “Employment: North America, USA – Virginia.” Lexology Getting the Deal Through, October 17, 2022.
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