About Anna
Anna practices in the firm’s Commercial Litigation and Labor and Employment Groups, and focuses on the firm’s Immigration practice. She counsels clients on compliance with Department of Labor and United States Citizenship and Immigration Service requirements and procedures for employment-based immigrant and non-immigrant petitions, and assists individuals with family-based immigrant petitions and citizenship issues. She also advises clients on I-9 compliance issues.
Before joining the firm, Anna worked in the Office of United States Senator John Cornyn and handled his constituents’ inquiries related to immigration, customs, and labor. She received her J.D. from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University where she was a member of the Cumberland School of Law National Trial Team, which won the AAJ National Trial Competition in 2008, and Senior Associate Editor for the American Journal of Trial Advocacy. She received her Masters of American Studies, cum laude, and her B.A. in Politics, magna cum laude, from the University of Dallas. Anna is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers, the American Bar Association, and the Alabama Bar Association. She is admitted to practice in all Alabama federal district courts, the Northern District of Florida, and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals as well as all Alabama state courts.
What is your favorite thing about the law?
It is the guide by which we all must judge the correctness of our economic and social interactions, which should mean that lawyers make the best citizens.
What community projects are you involved in?
I am working on lesson plans for public classes and seminars my husband and I will offer on political and economic thought, particularly with respect to its influences on and challenges to the American Founding. Liam and I will begin teaching next year at public forums, mostly sponsored by local political organizations.
What was your first job?
I fitted and sold school uniforms for Mobile County Schools.
What are your hobbies?
Fishing (mostly in-shore salt water with the recent addition of freshwater fly-fishing), playing pool, and scouring antique shops for old books.
What advice would you give to a young student in law school?
Make some friends; it’s never good to drink alone, especially after your first Contracts exam.
What is your favorite lawyer joke?
A rich and successful lawyer was riding home from church in the back of his driven town car when he noticed an impoverished family of five on the side of the highway. The family was so poor and hungry that they were eating the un-mowed grass on the shoulder. Having too much heart to pass this pitiful scene, the lawyer asked his driver to pull over. He beckoned the family into his car saying, ‘There is plenty of room in my car for all of you and plenty for you to eat when you come to my home, please come with me.’ When they all arrived at the lawyer’s stately mansion, the family, overcome by their good fortune at having found such a charitable soul, fell to their knees crying and thanking the kind lawyer. ‘Not at all,’ replied the lawyer, ‘this is a great blessing to me as well! My groundskeeper quit last week, so the grass in my yard is twice as high as the grass you were eating on the highway just now. Please help yourselves!’
How do you define a “good day”?
Sunshine out my window and lots of work on my desk.