Anne Marie Murphy

Anne Marie Murphy is a Principal at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP, where she practices civil litigation focusing on complex commercial litigation, class actions, public nuisance litigation, consumers’ rights, and elder abuse litigation. However, her litigation practice is far ranging and includes being the court appointed co-lead counsel for a nationwide securities class action, litigating against Major League Baseball over the Baseball Antitrust Exemption and representing taxpayers in a suit to stop Governor Schwarzenegger from selling major Californian historic properties and courthouses.

Ms. Murphy received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law School. She received her undergraduate degree from Vassar College. Ms. Murphy’s jury trial experience includes cases involving elder abuse, business disputes, real estate, probate, and trust. She has also acted as co-lead counsel in several consumer class actions which have returned millions of dollars to consumers across the country. Ms. Murphy has argued before the Ninth Circuit as well as the Joint Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.

Ms. Murphy serves on the Board of Directors of Consumer Attorneys of California‘s (CAOC) Executive Committee. She is on the Advisory Board of Berkeley’s Civil Justice Research Institute - CJRI is a think tank chaired by Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. Ms. Murphy served for many years on the Board of Directors of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (“CANHR”), including as President. She served as a Commissioner to California's Access to Justice Commission for more than 12 years. Ms. Murphy has extensive experience teaching CLE programs and has appeared on local as well as national news broadcasts including CBS Evening News, Morning Joe, ABC 7 On Your Side, View From The Bay, and Good Morning America (ABC).