Anne Sekel is a zealous advocate for her clients -- whether the task at hand is identifying and mitigating employment-related litigation risk or aggressively defending an employer's most challenging discrimination or other employment and complex commercial claims. A partner and litigation lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP, Anne is the managing partner of the firm's New York office. Anne views herself as an extension of employers' human resources and in-house legal departments. She steeps herself in her clients' businesses to ensure that she provides the most tailored and practical advice possible. Anne assists clients with a broad range of complex commercial and employment litigation matters, including employment discrimination and retaliation, trade secrets/non-competes, commercial and financial fraud, breach of contract, and insurance broker professional liability claims. She is a member of the firm's Commercial Litigation and Labor & Employment Practices, and has successfully represented clients in all phases of commercial disputes, ranging from pre-litigation dispute resolution through trial or arbitration. Anne has served in leadership roles within the firm throughout her career, including as the representative of the New York office on the firm's Associates Committee and then as the committee's national chair. She also has served on the firm's Women's Network and as the Litigation Department's training partner and the New York Office's Litigation Department chair.