Kaplan Hecker & Fink announced today that Anna (DeNicola) Stowe has joined the firm as its new Chief Operating Officer, resident in the New York office.
As Chief Operating Officer, Anna will be responsible for managing and overseeing the firm’s daily business operations while working closely with the managing partner and Management Committee to execute the longer-term goals for the firm and provide the highest and most efficient legal services for clients.
"Anna has earned the respect of judges and lawyers across New York City through her work with the Federal Bar Council, and we are thrilled to have her join us," said Julie Fink, Kaplan Hecker & Fink’s Managing Partner. "Anna will be working with attorneys and an already impressive operations team to identify and advance creative state-of-the-art practices that will help us operate more efficiently, enhance our internal processes and procedures, and continue to do our very best work for our clients.”
"I'm thrilled to join Kaplan Hecker & Fink, not only for the opportunity to work with a brilliant group of people, but also because of the firm’s unique culture dedicated to litigating its cases with creativity and at the highest level combined with its fierce commitment to using the courts to obtain justice,” Anna said. "I look forward to continuing the firm's dedication to excellence and innovation while building upon its exciting initiatives for growth."
Prior to joining Kaplan Hecker & Fink, Anna was the Executive Director of the Federal Bar Council where she oversaw the Federal Bar Council, Federal Bar Foundation and the Federal Bar Council American Inn of Court, annually serving more than 2,500 members of the bench and bar in the Second Circuit. During her tenure she partnered with the courts to expand civics education programming and launched the Council’s Access to Counsel Project.
“Anna served the Federal Bar Council as its Executive Director with vision and creativity,” said Jonathan Moses, the Council’s President-emeritus. “She led us through the pandemic and made us a stronger organization, focused on our core principles of fostering relations among the bench and bar and promoting the rule of law. She is a true leader who makes a difference in whatever she does.”
Anna previously held roles in orchestra management and artistic administration at The Cleveland Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire, the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New England Conservatory.
Anna received a J.D., magna cum laude, from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, a Master of Music in orchestral performance from McGill University, with honors, and a Bachelor of Music in oboe performance, cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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