Anna M. Weinberger

Anna is an associate in the Construction Group in Taft’s Chicago office, where she provides strategic legal counsel to clients involved in construction and energy projects worldwide. She represents owners, developers, contractors, subcontractors, and design professionals in both public and private sectors. Her work includes contract drafting and negotiation, risk assessment, and dispute resolution involving breach of contract, design and construction defects, delays, acceleration, disruption, loss of productivity, MBE compliance and mechanics liens. Anna has experience resolving disputes through negotiation, mediation, litigation and arbitration, including proceedings under AAA, ICC, ICDR, JAMS, LCIA, and HKIAC rules.

As a member of Taft’s French Practice Group, Anna also supports French companies doing business in North America. As a French national and native speaker, her deep understanding of both legal systems and business cultures allows her to provide tailored, bilingual support to clients navigating cross-border transactions and disputes.

Before joining the firm, Anna worked at leading construction law firms and energy companies across Paris, Hong Kong, Ho-Chi-Minh City, Washington D.C., New York and Chicago. She earned her LL.M. from Georgetown University, a Bachelor of Laws from Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, and a Master’s Degree in International Arbitration and Business Law from Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, in France. Before law school, Anna spent six years competing internationally as a member of the French National Figure Skating Team.

Anna is licensed to practice law in New York only. She is a member of the IPBA, ABA, NYSBA, Young ITA, and ICC YAAF.

Speeches

• Speaker, “Navigating the ESG Maze: Trade’s New Reality,” IPBA Annual Meeting and Conference 2025, April 2025.
• Co-Speaker, “DEI: Best Practices for Law Firms,” SOICA Webinar, June 2024.

Publications

• Co-Author, “Direct vs. Consequential Damages in the United States,” Society of Construction Law North America (with Steve Stein), 2018.
• Author, “An Arbitral Award Is Not a New Illegal State Aid Under EU Law,” Versailles International Arbitration and Business Law Review, Nov.2017.
• Co-Author, “Building the Capacity of Anti-Dumping Regimes in Developing Countries,” TradeLab & Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown Law, Sept. 2017.
• Author, “State Aid Regulations After Brexit: A Good Deal for the UK?” Legal Aspects of Brexit: Implications of the United Kingdom’s Decision to Withdraw from the European Union (eds. Jennifer A. Hillman & Gary Horlick), March 2017.