Sara Anne T. Quinn

Specialization

• Employment Litigation
• Labor and Employment

About Sara Anne's Practice

Sara Anne T. Quinn focuses her practice on employment litigation and counseling. She regularly counsels clients on employment law compliance issues including employment contracts, wage and hour issues, and employment policies and practices. In addition to employment litigation, for the past five years, she has served as a member of the team defending a pharmaceutical manufacturer in product liability claims involving Pradaxa®. Her work has included both coordination of consolidated discovery and other coordinated proceedings as well as case work-up for defense of single-plaintiff cases.

Education

• University of Tennessee, J.D., cum laude, 2010
  • Research Editor, Tennessee Law Review, 2010
  • Member, Tennessee Journal of Law & Policy
• University of North Carolina, B.A., with distinction, 2007

Major Publications & Speaking Engagements

• Editor, Tennessee Employment Law Letter
• Contributing Editor, Midsouth Employment Law Letter
• Author, "TN court highlights importance of keeping age out of termination equation," Tennessee Employment Law Letter, March 2021, and HR Daily Advisor, March 15, 2021
• Author, "OSHA guidance touches on more than masks, distancing," Tennessee Employment Law Letter, April 2021, and HR Daily Advisor, February 23, 2021
• Quoted, "Employers Likely to Seek Exceptions in $15 Minimum Wage Bill," HR Daily Advisor, January 28, 2021
• Author, "Employers left in wellness-plan limbo," Tennessee Employment Law Letter, December 2017, and HR Daily Advisor, January 23, 2018
• Author, "EEOC issues final regs governing wellness plans," Tennessee Employment Law Letter, June 2016, and HR Hero Line, July 13, 2016
• Author, "A New Heightened Standard for Title VII Retaliation Claims," Workplace, Vol. 2013, No. 7, August 2013.
• "DOL Celebrates FMLA’s 20th Anniversary by Issuing New Final Rule on FMLA Expansion," Workplace, Vol. 2013, No. 2, March 2013.
• Co-Author, "Tennessee House passes guns-in-cars bill," Tennessee Employment Law Letter, March 2013, and HR Daily Advisor, February 28, 2013
• "Implementation of Health Care Law Remains Priority," ABA’s Labor and Employment Law (Winter 2011).

Admitted to Practice

• Tennessee, 2010
• U.S. District Courts
  • Tennessee: Western, Middle, Eastern