Cozen O’Connor recently issued the following announcement.
Anna Wermuth, vice-chair of Cozen O’Connor’s national Labor and Employment Department has been named the 2022 Chicago Employment Law – Management “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers in America, one of the oldest and most highly regarded peer review publications in the legal profession.
The only Management Employment lawyer from Chicago to be named “Lawyer of the Year” for 2022, Wermuth received the highest annual ratings in her practice area from peer attorneys nationwide, recognizing her for outstanding legal ability, professionalism and integrity.
Earlier this year, Wermuth was named one of Chicago’s Top Women in Law by the publishers of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and the Chicago Lawyer magazine, recognizing her success in the field of law and for her leadership and mentorship.
Practicing for over 20 years, Wermuth has been an integral force behind the growth of Cozen O’Connor’s national Labor and Employment Department. Working out of the Chicago office, she represents management in high-stakes labor and employment litigation, including recently securing a precedent-setting decision from the Seventh Circuit in a FLSA collective action case.
Over the past decade, Wermuth has also become a “go to” legal resource for the higher education industry representing colleges and universities in faculty, staff, and student litigation, as well as in organizing efforts and collective bargaining negotiations on campus.
In May 2021, Wermuth was appointed to the seven-member Advisory Committee for the Study of the Rules of Practice and Internal Operating Procedures of the District and Bankruptcy Courts of the Northern District of Illinois. Also in 2021, she was appointed Employer Vice Chair of the American Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Section’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession Committee. She also serves as the Management Co-Vice Chair for the Section’s National Trial Advocacy Competition.
Wermuth has held numerous previous leadership positions in the ABA including most recently as the Management Co-Chair of the Development of the Law Under the NLRA Committee. She has also served as an associate editor of Developing Labor Law – the leading traditional labor law treatise jointly published by Bloomberg/BNA and the ABA. In addition, Wermuth is the past chair of the Labor & Employment Law Committee of the Chicago Bar Association.
In 2020, Wermuth was named as a Fellow to the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers (CLEL). She has also been honored in three of the past four years by Crain’s Chicago Business: In 2017, she was named to the inaugural list of Chicago’s “Most Influential Women Lawyers” and in 2018 and 2020 she was included on the list of the “Most Notable Women Lawyers” in Chicago. Wermuth has also been consistently recognized by Chambers USA as a leading attorney and by LawDragon as one of the “Top 20 Labor & Employment Attorneys in the Nation.”
Prior to entering private practice, Wermuth served as law clerk to the Honorable Rebecca R. Pallmeyer, Chief Judge of the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Wermuth received her J.D. (1999) from the Loyola University Chicago School of Law where she graduated second in her class. She received an M.A. (1992) from Northwestern University and graduated with high honors from DePaul University (B.A., 1991) where she also competed in NCAA Division I Women’s Track and Cross Country.
In addition to her legal practice, Wermuth serves on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Youth Centers, a 60-year-old non-profit organization that services over 4,000 children and families in Chicago each year with early childhood education, out-of-school and teen leadership programs.
About Cozen O’Connor
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To read Anna Wermuth’s Best Lawyer’s profile, see https://www.BestLawyers.com.
For more information on Anna Wermuth, please visit the Cozen O’Connor web site at: https://www.cozen.com/people/bios/wermuth-anna.