Anne Marie’s practice involves various forms of complex litigation. For example, she has served as counsel to HealthSouth Corporation in wide-ranging litigation related to the corporate fraud committed by some of the company’s former insiders. As part of those cases, she was a member of the teams who secured a $2.8 billion verdict against the company’s former CEO, Richard Scrushy, and a $100 million settlement with the company’s former investment bank. Her complex litigation experience also ranges to managing mass tort litigation in the pharmaceutical arena. That litigation has involved not only handling hundreds of individual claims simultaneously, but also being a trial team member for a defense verdict for Merck after a jury trial.
Anne Marie enjoys pulling together all the moving parts in multi-forum or multi-plaintiff litigation to work with her clients to successfully face the challenges of litigation in efficient and creative ways.
Anne Marie’s practice involves various forms of complex litigation. For example, she has served as counsel to HealthSouth Corporation in wide-ranging litigation related to the corporate fraud committed by some of the company’s former insiders. As part of those cases, she was a member of the teams who secured a $2.8 billion verdict against the company’s former CEO, Richard Scrushy, and a $100 million settlement with the company’s former investment bank. Her complex litigation experience also ranges to managing mass tort litigation in the pharmaceutical arena. That litigation has involved not only handling hundreds of individual claims simultaneously, but also being a trial team member for a defense verdict for Merck after a jury trial.
Anne Marie enjoys pulling together all the moving parts in multi-forum or multi-plaintiff litigation to work with her clients to successfully face the challenges of litigation in efficient and creative ways.
Anne Marie has handled cases, including trial experience, in jurisdictions ranging from Alabama state and federal courts to the Tribal Court of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians. She has advised her clients on legal matters as diverse as business torts and competitive practices, pharmaceutical litigation, and challenges to arbitration awards. Anne Marie’s first introduction to complex litigation came early in her career in a case for Intel Corporation including antitrust, patent, and state competitive practice claims. Her experience in that litigation developed her skills for handling high stakes litigation matters, which has served her well up until today in her work on multi-billion dollar claims for HealthSouth Corporation. Additionally, Anne Marie coordinated the firm’s defense of two major pharmaceutical companies against numerous Alabama state, federal, and multi-district court claims involving the prescription medications Baycol and Vioxx. Those matters have involved significant practice in jurisdictional battles, coordination of multi-district litigation, and preparing cases for trial and settlement efforts. Additionally, Anne Marie has dedicated a lot of time in her pharmaceutical work to learning the science important to the matters and developing expert testimony.
Inside the firm, Anne Marie served as the Chair of the Interim Diversity Committee and is one of the founders of the firm’s Women’s Initiative, the Winn Initiative, named after one of the first female partners in the South, Ellene Winn, of our firm. She is also a member of the firm’s Associate Committee, an ex officio member of the Diversity Advisory Committee, and is a former member of the Recruiting Committee.
Anne Marie also has served in various subcommittee roles in the ABA Section of Litigation Woman Advocate Committee, for which she was named an outstanding subcommittee co-chair for 2009-2010. She is currently serving as co-chair of that committee for 2010-2011. Related to that work, Anne Marie served on the Editorial Board for the second edition of the ABA’s book, The Woman Advocate. In that book, she co-authored a chapter, entitled “Bridging the Generational Divide.”