Annie represents leaders in the pharmaceutical industry who develop lifesaving and breakthrough medical treatments. She was a core member of the trial team in the first jury trial involving GSK’s heartburn medicine Zantac, which resulted in a full defense verdict. During that trial, she successfully argued key evidentiary motions and worked extensively with testifying expert and company witnesses.
Annie is skilled at using discovery tools and briefs to set her clients up for success. Annie has deposed several fact and expert witnesses, each of whom was later called and impeached at trial. Annie has also briefed motions for summary judgment on preemption, causation, and statutes of limitations and repose grounds, along with motions to exclude expert witnesses. This briefing experience spans many federal and state jurisdictions. In her briefs, Annie draws on her prior experience as an elementary school teacher to help transform complicated legal and fact issues into a clear and persuasive story.
Annie also maintains an active pro bono practice. She chairs the Firm’s partnership with the Chicago Lawyers in the Classroom Program, a Chicago Bar Association initiative that provides authentic interactive learning opportunities for middle school students, enhancing their critical-thinking, collaboration, and civil-discourse skills. Annie also represented a class of state inmates challenging their conditions of confinement as unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment. In this litigation, Annie led briefing on critical motions and drafted discovery and deposition plans. And Annie successfully represented several individual criminal defendants in Massachusetts state court.
Prior to joining Goldman Ismail, Annie was an associate at a major litigation firm in Chicago and clerked on the federal district court in Columbus, Ohio. Annie received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, her M.A. from George Washington University, and her B.A. from Miami University in Ohio. Before attending law school, Annie taught first grade with Teach for America and spent several years investigating organizational misconduct at a large public university.