Anna T. Neill Ph.D.

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.

Anna is also a member of the Board of the Miami Chapter of the ACLU of Florida and has worked pro bono as a cooperating attorney with the ACLU in federal litigation to protect the rights of individuals experiencing homelessness. She also serves on the Miami ACLU’s legal panel and has been the Secretary of the Chapter since 2021.

Anna was born and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia where she attended The Westminster Schools. She then attended the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia, where she earned both a B.A. in Spanish and a B.S. in Biology, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Following college, she moved across the country to San Diego, California, where she 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 moved from Southern to Northern California to attend Stanford Law School. She completed her J.D. in 2008 and then moved to Miami, Florida to clerk for the Honorable Rosemary Barkett on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Following her clerkship, she returned to Northern California where she worked with a large, international law firm primarily practicing intellectual property litigation before returning to Miami and joining Kenny Nachwalter in 2012.