Anna Wermuth

Practice Areas

Anna represents management in labor and employment litigation before state and federal courts and administrative agencies including the National Labor Relations Board, the EEOC, the Department of Labor, among other agencies. She has extensive experience representing employers in individual and class actions involving the full range of employment matters, including discrimination and wage/hour cases, non-compete agreements, and unfair labor practices. Anna is a widely recognized practitioner in higher-education, representing numerous major universities in union election campaigns, NLRB proceedings, collective bargaining, and significant employment litigation. Anna has presented on a wide range of topics for the American Bar Association, the National Association of College and University Attorneys, the Practicing Law Institute, the Society of Human Resource Management, and other business, bar and academic associations.

Career

Vice-Chair, Cozen O’Connor’s National L&E Department; 2022 Employment Law - Management Lawyer of the Year in Chicago by The Best Lawyers in America; “Top-20 L&E Attorneys” – LawDragon 2017- 2021; Crain's Chicago Business, Most Influential Women Lawyers, 2017; Notable Women in Law, 2018, 2020; Woman Leader in the Law, ALM and Martindale Hubbell, 2020.

Professional Memberships

ABA L&E Section Council Member; Board of Directors of the Chicago Chapter of the Federal Bar Association; Member, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Rules Advisory Committee; Past Editor, Bloomberg BNA/ABA Developing Labor Law treatise; past Vice-Chair of the ABA L&E Section’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion in the Legal Profession; past Co-Chair, Development of the Law under the NLRA Committee; Past-Chair, Chicago Bar Association L&E Law Committee.

Education