Anne H. Littlefield

Anne Littlefield serves as Shipman's General Counsel. In that capacity, she focuses on legal ethics, professional responsibility, and corporate governance. She provides advice to the firm's management team, lawyers and staff regarding ethical obligations, firm policies and procedures, and risk management. 

In addition to her role as General Counsel, Anne focuses her practice in the areas of labor relations, employment, and education law, representing schools in collective bargaining, personnel policies and practices, constitutional law, special education, student discipline, freedom of information, and education policies. She negotiates collective bargaining agreements on behalf of schools, including representation in interest arbitration proceedings as needed. Anne works with schools to address issues such as challenging behavior and sexual harassment, and is often called upon to advise schools regarding professional boundaries and child abuse and neglect issues. She guides Shipman's model policy project, which provides policy support and guidance to a number of school districts.

Anne is accredited with the Department of Veterans Affairs. From 2010 through 2017, she acted as Co-Chair of the firm's School Law Practice Group, and from 2011 through 2017, she served on the firm's Management Committee.