Anna L. Friedberg

Associate

Friedberg

Anna concentrates her practice on the defense of individuals under investigation for or charged with crimes.

For over ten years, Anna was a trial attorney in the Knox County Public Defender Office in Knoxville, Tennessee, which is widely recognized as an innovator in the field of community-based legal representation. She fiercely fought for her clients during all phases of the criminal trial process, from bail hearings and pretrial motions to trials, sentencing, and appeals. She served as counsel in a number of serious felony matters, including complex death penalty cases. Representative cases include the following:

  • Represented a U.S. army soldier charged with first-degree murder with aggravating circumstances, a capital offense, for killing his wife. After extensive investigation and motion practice, the client avoided the death penalty and was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole.
  • Represented an accountant charged with first-degree murder for shooting one of his former employers, the wife in a husband-and-wife accounting firm. The charge was reduced to second-degree murder, thereby avoiding life imprisonment.
  • Represented a client charged with possession of marijuana for resale after police found 60 pounds of marijuana in his bedroom. The case was dismissed following a successful motion to suppress based on unlawful search of his residence.
  • Represented a client charged with embezzling thousands of dollars from her employer. Following a trial, the client was sentenced to judicial diversion — her case was dismissed, and her record was expunged after two years of compliance with the terms of her probation.
  • Represented a client charged with road rage after allegedly brandishing a weapon at another driver. A jury found him guilty of simple assault, and the case was ultimately dismissed by the prosecutor.

A native of Lafayette, Louisiana, Anna received her B.A. from Louisiana State University and her J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law. In law school she focused on criminal law and evidence, and collaborated with Professor Neil P. Cohen on a criminal procedure textbook. After law school, Anna further honed her trial skills at the National Criminal Defense College in Macon, Georgia.

Anna became a member of the New York Bar in 2006. Prior to joining Charles A. Ross & Associates, she worked as a civil litigator with Axiom Legal, where she represented Fortune 500 companies and managed teams of attorneys as part of a legal task force handling antitrust and patent litigation in New York and London.

Anna is licensed to practice in Louisiana and New York. She is a member of the Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the New York City Bar, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the New York Criminal Bar Association.