Background
Yahner, Ann C. was born in 1949 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
Yahner, Ann C. was born in 1949 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
Wellesley College (Bachelor of Arts, 1971). Harvard University (Juris Doctor, 1979).
Worked at Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, Professional limited liability company (Washington, District of Columbia) specializing in General Civil Trial and Appellate Practice in State and Federal Courts. Antitrust and Unfair Trade Practices, Securities, Consumer Product Liability, Franchising, Mass Torts, and Toxic Tort Litigation. Complex, Multi-District and Class Action Litigation.
Admitted to the bar, 1979, District of Columbia.
Phi Beta Kappa. Wellesley Scholar. Author: "Coastal Zone Management Acting Amendments of 1976," l Harvard Environmental Law Review 259, 1976.
Trial Attorney, Antitrust Division, United States. Department of Justice, 1979-1982.
The firm is one of a handful of firms in the United States litigating plaintiffs" class actions as a regular part of its business, with a specialty in antitrust, securities, environmental toxic tort, consumer, and product liability cases.
The firm has been involved in many of the major complex class action cases litigated in the United States and has a national reputation in this area. Members of the firm have concluded numerous securities and antitrust class actions in which they have played a principal or lead role or served on the Executive Committee of plaintiffs" counsel