Focus Areas
Examples of Anna’s experience include:
- Drafted appeals from Food & Drug Administration Marketing Denial Orders in the 4th, 5th and 9th Circuits, including a successful 5th Circuit en banc appeal which was subsequently granted certiorari by the Supreme Court of the United States in July 2024.
- Provided regulatory compliance counseling to the nation’s largest distributors and retailers of vaping products for cannabis, THC, CBD, hemp and nicotine, and their Chinese manufacturers, at both the federal level and across all fifty states and territories.
- Represented business clients under investigation by state Offices of the Attorney General and by the Bureau of Tobacco, Alcohol, Firearms and Explosives.
- Represented business clients facing trademark infringement claims before the International Trade Commission and in the Southern District of Florida.
- Counseled product manufacturers through investigation and recall by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
- Represented international corporations with World Bank-financed projects in Colombia and Ecuador facing sanctions proceedings.
- Counseled restaurant chain in shareholder litigation and arbitration in the Southern District of New York and United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
- Represented contractors and sub-contractors in construction litigation in Maryland State Court.
- Argued before the Third Circuit and drafted appellate briefs on behalf of a pro bono client facing deportation in a matter involving the statutory construction of the Immigration and Nationality Act’s stop-time statute.
- Won asylum for pro bono Afghani client fleeing forced marriage to a Taliban member.
- “U.S. Court of Appeals Weighs in on Hemp-Derived Delta-8 THC Classification,” Thompson Hine Cannabis Practice Update, May 2022
- Co-author, Recent Developments in Business & Corporate Litigation, 2020 Edition, American Bar Association, Vol. 1, Ch. 11, “Recent Developments in Business Torts: The Economic Loss Doctrine Is No Match for State Consumer Protection Statutes,” May 2020
- Panelist, “The Future of the Cannabis Industry,” Next Generation Nicotine Delivery Conference, July 2023
- Panelist, “Recent Developments in Tort Law,” Episode 5, ABA’s Annual Review podcast, October 2020
- Creator, moderator and panelist, “Because of Sex: Breaking Down the Supreme Court’s Title VII Cases,” November 2019
- Included in the 2024 and 2025 editions of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Commercial Litigation
- Staffer, American University Washington College of Law, Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
Professional Associations
- Member, DC LGBT Bar Association
- Member, The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights
Community Activities
- Member/former volunteer, Humane Society of St. Thomas
- Member, Friends of the Virgin Islands National Park
Education
- American University Washington College of Law, J.D., 2016
- Muhlenberg College, B.A.Sc., 2010
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
Court Admissions
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals Weighs in on Hemp-Derived Delta-8 THC Classification,
Cannabis Practice Update
, May 25, 2022