Lee Ann Kosakowski-Rhodes

LEE ANN RHODES, is a member of the firm’s Risk Management & Workers' Compensation Practice Group.

Her responsibilities include researching and writing about complex legal issues. She prepares findings to be presented to the Workers' Compensation Judges and briefs to be submitted to the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board on behalf of employers. Briefs often center on such issues as whether a work injury has occurred, whether the worker is disabled as a result of a work related injury, the competency of witnesses and their testimony. She also attends hearings before the Workers' Compensation Judges and participates in depositions of medical and lay witnesses.

Ms. Rhodes was admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania and is a member of the Pennsylvania and Allegheny County Bar Associations.

While attending Duquesne University School of Law, she was Associate Recent Decisions Editor of the University's Law Review. Her case note regarding the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Babbit v Sweet Home Chapter of Communities for a Great Oregon was published in Issue 4 of Volume 34 of the Duquesne Law Review.

While attending St. Vincent College, she was a member of the Phi Alpha Theta Academic Honor Society and the Pre-Law Society. As an alumnus of St. Vincent College, Ms. Rhodes is now a member of the Law Society of St. Vincent College.