Anna Neill

Practice Areas

Anna Neill is a federal antitrust attorney, primarily representing plaintiffs. An experienced trial attorney, her practice focuses on bringing claims for large retail pharmacy chains against brand and generic pharmaceutical companies that engage in anticompetitive practices designed to thwart generic competition and thereby drive up the cost of prescription drugs.

Anna has represented retailer plaintiffs in well over a dozen pharmaceutical reverse payment cases. In these cases, sometimes called “pay-for-delay” cases, brand drug manufacturers and their potential generic drug competitors conspire to have the brand manufacturer pay the generic company to refrain from introducing a competing generic drug for some period of time. During this period of delay, which may extend from several months to many years, both the brand and the generic manufacturer benefit financially by sharing the monopoly profits of the brand drug, while the purchasers of those drugs – including retailers, patients, and health insurers – are forced to pay higher prices than they otherwise would in a competitive market.

Career

Anna was a member of the Miami Chapter of the ACLU of Florida from 2016 until 2023, serving as member of the chapter’s legal panel and as Secretary of the chapter from 2021 through 2023. She has also served as a Vice-Chair of the Health Care & Pharmaceuticals Committee of the Antitrust Section of the ABA since 2022.

Anna has an active pro bono practice, currently representing authors and schoolchildren in federal litigation against certain school boards in Florida in cases alleging First Amendment violations related to those boards’ removal of the children’s book And Tango Makes Three from school libraries based on its positive LGBTQ+ viewpoint. She also previously worked as a cooperating attorney with the ACLU in federal litigation to protect the rights of individuals experiencing homelessness.

Following college, Anna earned a Ph.D. in Marine Biology from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego. Her Ph.D. dissertation study focused on cellular signaling pathways involved in sea urchin fertilization, including work in cellular biology, protein biochemistry, and bioinformatics. Following the completion of her Ph.D., Anna attended Stanford Law School, completing her J.D. in 2008. She then clerked for the Honorable Rosemary Barkett on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. After her clerkship, she practiced with a large, international law firm primarily focused on intellectual property litigation before joining Kenny Nachwalter in 2012.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association

– Antitrust Law Section

– Litigation Section

California Lawyers Association

– Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section

– Intellectual Property Law Section

The Florida Bar

– Business Law Section

– Trial Lawyers Section