Anne Marie Sferra
Anne Marie Sferra is a partner in Bricker & Eckler's Litigation group and chair of the Appellate Advocacy group. She has experience in insurance cases, including class actions, ERISA, bad faith claims, and coverage issues. Anne Marie also has experience handling cases involving trade secrets, enforcement of confidentiality agreements, defamation, invasion of privacy, tortious interference with contractual relations, and a variety of business-related claims. She has also litigated election and referenda issues throughout Ohio.
In 2008, Anne Marie became the first Columbus-area attorney to be certified as an Appellate Law Specialist by the Ohio State Bar Association. She was a member of the legal counsel team to the 200-member Ohio Alliance for Civil Justice to reform Ohio's tort laws under Ohio House Bill 350 and Ohio Senate Bill 120 and is counsel on numerous amicus curiae briefs, primarily in the Ohio Supreme Court, on behalf of the Ohio Manufacturers Association, the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, the Ohio Hospital Association, the American Insurance Association and others.
- •Ohio State Bar Association Certified Specialist – Appellate Law
- •Listed, Ohio Super Lawyers 2009-2016; Top 25 Women Columbus Ohio Super Lawyers 2013-2016; Top 50 Women Ohio 2016
- •Recognized, ChambersUSA, Litigation: General Commercial with a Band 3 ranking, 2011-2015; Band 4 ranking 2008-2010, 2016
- •Ranked as AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell
- •Recognized, Columbus Business First’s “The Verdict,” 2005
- •Recipient, Columbus Jaycees' Ten Outstanding Young Citizens of Greater Columbus Award, 1996
Columbus, Ohio 43215-4291