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About Jo Ann Niemi
Jo Ann Niemi earned her bachelor's degree from Arizona State University in 1992 and her law degree from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 2000, where she graduated cum laude. She was also a visiting student at Arizona State University College of Law from January to May 2000. Before joining Anapol Weiss, Jo Ann was a law clerk and later an associate attorney at Victor & Hall, P.L.C. She also worked as a law clerk for the United States Attorney's Office and as a senior law clerk for the California Attorney General's Office in San Diego in 1999.
Jo Ann was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar Association in 2019. She was also admitted to the State Bar of Arizona, Federal District Court and 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2001. She has been admitted Pro Hac Vice in State courts across the United States including California, Georgia, Hawaii, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas and Vermont. She is a member of the American Bar Association, Arizona State Bar Association, Maricopa County Bar Association, Arizona Association for Justice, Arizona Trial Lawyers Association, and the Attorneys' Information Exchange Group.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Anapol Weiss
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Anapol Weiss shareholder Kristen Gibbons Feden helped secure $1.6 billion in default verdicts for 104 women sexually abused as children by former Long Island pediatrician Stuart Copperman, one of the largest cumulative civil awards against a single individual in U.S. history.
On Nov. 3, 2014, Howmedica Osteonics, doing business as Stryker Orthopaedics, settled the claims of about 3,000 people who had surgery to remove recalled Rejuvenate and ABG II modular hip stems. The deal was announced in the Bergen County courthouse and paired with a parallel proceeding in the federal MDL in Minnesota. It sets a base award per failed implant plus enhancements for complications, with no fixed fund, and was expected to pay out more than $1 billion. Thomas Anapol of Anapol Schwartz sat on the court-appointed Plaintiff Steering Committee for the New Jersey litigation.
Sol Weiss and Larry Coben of Anapol Weiss served as co-lead class counsel in the landmark NFL concussion multidistrict litigation, securing a settlement valued at nearly $1 billion for thousands of retired players diagnosed with serious neurological conditions.
In early 2014, Biomet agreed to pay at least $56 million to settle about 1,000 federal lawsuits over its M2a 38 and M2a Magnum metal-on-metal hip implants, consolidated in the Northern District of Indiana. Qualifying patients who had the device revised received a base award of $200,000, adjusted by individual factors. Thomas Anapol was court-appointed Co-Lead Counsel with W. Mark Lanier and signed the agreement for the Plaintiffs' Executive Committee. The figure covers many unrelated plaintiffs, is a reported minimum rather than a final total, and is not itemized by person.
A 19-year-old woman from Oklahoma said her Uber driver raped her during a late-night ride in Arizona in November 2023. On February 5, 2026, a nine-person federal jury in Phoenix found Uber liable under an apparent-agency theory and awarded $8.5 million in compensatory damages. It was the first trial among more than 3,000 consolidated rideshare assault cases. The jury declined punitive damages and rejected the negligence and defective-design claims.
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