Annie R. Wilt
Associate / Chicago

P: 312-881-5024

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Annie represents clients in various stages of high-stakes civil litigation.  She has experience conducting and managing complex discovery, researching and briefing legal issues of first impression, and drafting dispositive motions.  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.

In her pro bono practice, Annie has 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.  Annie also successfully represented several individual criminal defendants in Massachusetts state court.

Prior to joining Goldman Ismail, Annie was an associate at a major international litigation firm in Chicago and clerked on a 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.

  • Zantac Litigation

    Represents GSK in products liability litigation consolidated in Cook County, Illinois involving over-the-counter heartburn medication.

    Tenofovir Product Liability Litigation

    Represents Gilead in litigation involving claims alleging kidney and bone injuries related to HIV medications.

    Antitrust Litigation

    Represented media company in a class action in federal district court against allegations of price-fixing.

    Prison Conditions Litigation

    Represented inmates in a state prison challenging conditions of confinement as unconstitutional.

    • Associate, Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP
    • Associate, Jenner & Block LLP
    • Harvard Law School (J.D.)
      • Teaching and Research Fellow
      • Articles Editor, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
      • Criminal Justice Institute Student Attorney
    • George Washington University (M.A., Higher Education Policy)
    • Miami University (B.A., Political Science)
      • Appointed Student Trustee by Ohio Governor John Kasich
    • Honorable Michael H. Watson, United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
    • State of Illinois
    • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois