Anna M. Pohl joined the firm in the spring of 2004 and is active in both the civil rights and consumer protection aspects of the firm’s practice. Ms. Pohl litigates a variety of complex employment matters, including race and gender discrimination class action cases, and negotiates and drafts pre-filing settlement agreements to provide both individual and company-wide programmatic relief. She also represents consumers in complex class actions challenging unfair or deceptive trade practices.In addition to her work at M&S, Ms. Pohl represents immigrants and asylum seekers pro bono before the Board of Immigration Appeals and recently won asylum for an anti-war activist from the Sudan.
Prior to joining M&S, Ms. Pohl was an attorney at the Immigrant Women Program of NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund (now called Legal Momentum: Advancing Women’s Rights), where she worked on immigration and domestic violence policy issues. While at NOW Legal Defense, Ms. Pohl provided technical assistance to attorneys and advocates on obtaining immigration relief, public benefits, housing, protective orders and child custody orders for immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and trafficking. She also drafted training materials for prosecutors and law enforcement on the immigration consequences of criminal activity and how to help immigrant victims caught up in the criminal justice system without causing them to be deported.
Ms. Pohl received her law degree in 2002 from New England School of Law in Boston, where she served on the editorial board of the New England Journal of International and Comparative Law. While in law school, under the supervision of 2005 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Michael P. Scharf, Ms. Pohl wrote a memorandum and prepared research materials for the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for use in its work prosecuting war criminals. Ms. Pohl received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Towson State University. She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Massachusetts.
Email: apohl@findjustice.com
