Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, LLP

Anne R. Yuengert

Partner

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, LLP
Alabama, U.S.A.

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Anne Yuengert works with clients to manage their employees, including conducting workplace investigations of harassment or theft, training employees and supervisors, consulting on reductions in force and severance agreements, drafting employment agreements (including enforceable noncompetes) and handbooks, assessing reasonable accommodations for disabilities, and working through issues surrounding FMLA and USERRA leave. When preventive measures are not enough, she handles EEOC charges, OFCCP and DOL complaints and investigations, and has handled cases before arbitrators, administrative law judges and federal and state court judges. She has tried more than 30 cases to verdict.

Anne also represents school boards in any and all aspects of their operations, including litigating student disciplinary matters before the school board and juvenile courts, handling teacher nonrenewal and contract terminations under the Alabama Students First Act, special education IEP issues and due process hearings, as well as anything else a board might need.

Bar Admissions

Alabama, 1989

Court Admissions

United States Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit
Supreme Court of Alabama
United States District Court, Northern District of Alabama
United States District Court, Middle District of Alabama
United States District Court, Southern District of Alabama

Education

Washington & Lee University School of Law, J.D., 1989, magna cum laude; Order of the Coif; Steinheimer Commercial Law Award
University of Virginia, B.A., 1984

Areas of Practice

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments

Anne represents all kinds of employers in a variety of industries, including healthcare (both hospital-based and individual physician practices), school boards, financial services, computer software, heavy industry, and government contractors. Her recent experience includes:

Obtaining summary judgment on a former employee’s claim that her healthcare employer terminated her because of her race and sex
Litigating a former teacher’s state court breach of contract lawsuit against the school board, including claims of fraud, defamation and tortious interference
Working with client on WARN Act compliance when shutting down a plant
Negotiating early resolutions of former employees’ claims of misclassification under the wage and hour laws, thereby avoiding litigation
Representing clients in disability access matters, including a recent Department of Justice investigation
Defeating class certification in lawsuit filed against school board and former board members alleging that former teacher molested students
Representing home healthcare provider in lawsuit challenging exempt status of home companions under recent revision of DOL regulations

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