Anna K. Stark

Anna is a business litigator and a white-collar criminal practice lawyer, with a focus on securities and shareholder litigation, civil and criminal antitrust, fraud and contract disputes. As a managing associate in the firm, she has a wide spectrum of litigation experience that encompasses handling complex civil cases and white-collar defense in state and federal courts as well as before the AAA and FINRA. She represents individual and institutional clients in multiple industries, including financial services, entertainment, pharmaceuticals, insurance, and real estate.

While much of Anna’s practice involves representing corporations, directors and officers in class action securities litigation and derivative shareholder litigation, she has experience representing clients in matters relating to criminal prosecutions, internal investigations, broker-dealer disputes, insurance litigation, and entertainment contract disputes.

Anna also has a robust pro bono practice, including representing artists through Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, representing LGBT individuals in federal immigration court, and representing HIV+ clients in a variety of civil proceedings.   

Prior to joining Thompson Hine, Anna was an associate at an Am Law 200 firm. While attending law school, Anna served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Lee Yeakel in the United States District Court’s Western District of Texas. Prior to that, she worked as a research assistant at the University of Virginia School of Law. She worked as a court-appointed guardian ad litem for CASA of Travis County, Texas. While achieving her B.A. at Northwestern University, Anna served as an intern for the Honorable Michael Keasler in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. She received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she worked with the UVA Innocence Project Clinic.