MARY ANNE SEDEY

Mary Anne Sedey is a nationally recognized employment attorney. Her practice is devoted exclusively to representing employees in work-related disputes. Ms. Sedey hasbeen recognized every year since 1993 as one of The Best Lawyers in America. Best Lawyers named her the best Labor and Employment
Lawyer in St. Louis for 2010. For more than ten years St. Louis Magazine has named her to its Best Lawyers list. In August, 2007 Human Resource Executive magazine called her one of The Top 10 Plaintiffs Attorneys to Fear the Most. Ms. Sedey was President of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), the national professional organization for the 3000 lawyers who represent employees in employment and civil rights disputes, from 1995 to 1998. She served on NELA’s Board for twelve years, and founded its St. Louis chapter. She was appointed a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers in 1996 and served two terms on the Executive Board of the College. Ms. Sedey is the immediate past-president of Workplace Fairness, a not-for-profit organization created to provide information, education and assistance to workers and their advoates and to promote public policies that advance employee rights. 

She is currently a member of the Judicial Commission for the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit. Ms. Sedey has taught trial practice at St. Louis University Law School and speaks around the country on employment law issues and trial tactics for the American Bar Association, the American Association for Justice (AAJ), the National Employment Lawyers Association, state bar organizations and AAJ affiliates. Ms. Sedey received her B.A. degree from Webster in 1970 and is a graduate of St. Louis University School of Law