Anita focuses her practice on representing pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers in mass tort and individual cases pending across the country. She is currently responsible for national coordination of case specific work in mass tort actions involving pelvic mesh products. She is also an experienced appellate litigator, handling appeals on behalf of pharmaceutical and medical device industry clients, as well as clients in a variety of other industries.

Anita has tried over 100 cases in state and federal courts. Her recent experience includes trying a product liability action involving a pelvic mesh medical device in Arizona federal court. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Trial Attorneys of America and received its Worker Achievement Award in 2012. She is a Fellow of Litigation Counsel of America and served on its Trial Law Institute Advisory Board. She is also a graduate of International Association of Defense Counsel’s prestigious Trial Academy.

In addition to her product liability practice, Anita litigates copyright and trademark infringement cases. Her experience includes defending and prosecuting such claims.  She also represents established and upcoming authors, artists, musicians and entertainment and media businesses in a wide range of matters, including intellectual property matters involving copyrights and trademarks. She is experienced in representing entertainment industry clients on management and monetization of intellectual property assets and counseling and providing business services including negotiating and drafting production, distribution, literary option, franchise and other agreements.

She is a Grammy Member of The Recording Academy and is active in a number of other entertainment industry organizations, including the Tennessee Intellectual Property law Association (President, 2017-2018), Media Law Resource Center, Tennessee Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Law and Entertainment and Sports Law Sections, and Tennessee Volunteer Lawyers & Professionals for the Arts. She also served as the Co-Chair of Defense Research Institute’s Intellectual Property Litigation Committee’s Copyright Litigation Group.

She is recognized in Best Lawyers in America^®, which selected her as Jackson, Mississippi’s Lawyer of the Year for Trademark Law (2019). She is also a Fellow of the American Bar Association, is listed in Mid-South Super Lawyers^® and is AV^®-Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell^®. She served as an adjunct professor for University of Mississippi School of Law and as an instructor at Tulane University. She speaks and writes frequently on product liability and intellectual property topics.