Anna Hall Levine-Gronningsater

I’m so grateful to Anna, who was incredibly helpful with my wrongful termination case—professional, responsive, and thorough. She clearly explained every detail, protected my interests, made a stressful process much easier and was always just a call or email away. I felt truly supported every step of... the way. I'm beyond thankful for everything she did.

I was drowning in anxiety during a very complex real estate dispute with a rapidly approaching deadline. I reached out to Anna and she was able to provide expert guidance and advice on CA landlord-tenant law, helping me review a very unique type of Lease Termination Agreement and revise a bulk of the... contract's language in order to protect me even further. Beyond her legal acumen and thoroughness, Anna's confidence and calming nature probably prevented me from having a heart attack. I seriously cannot thank her enough nor recommend her more highly.

I was referred to Anna by a trusted friend. Her guidance was invaluable as I navigated a serious workplace incident. She was very responsive even on short notice, and clearly demonstrated a strong knowledge of the legal issues pertaining to my event/situation. I highly recommend her service and legal... counsel.

Attorney Anna Levine-Gronningsater is smart and she knows the law. While both are essential for good legal representation, it often requires more to win. The force multiplier that made Ms. Levine-Gronningsater a power player in my case was her depth of understanding of more than the law. Having stu...died with famed law professor Kimberle Crenshaw, Anna employed her ability to discern the unique vulnerabilities associated with intersectionality – an area of critical race theory often overlooked and unaddressed by traditional lawyers. I am fortunate that Anna represented me. It was a great fit and I am deeply grateful for the outcome.

When Anita Hill said that women don’t report sexual harassment, they seek “better employment opportunities,” my reaction was, well, duh. I certainly had done everything I possibly could to avoid reporting sexual harassment—appease, evade, normalize, ignore—and after a year, was facing the loss of... a career I had spent a decade building. What's more, my attempts to endure it, outsmart it, work harder, manage it into productive working relationship actually had implicated me. It looked bleak: Stepping out against the man who held my career, reputation, network, better employment opportunities in the palm of his hand, who signed my paycheck, seemed like an excellent way to commit professional suicide, and, on a personal level, volunteer to live in hell. When I first spoke with Anna Levine-Gronningsater, she affirmed that such apprehensions were quite valid, if accurate. I appreciated the honesty. Anna is a tactician. She is meticulous and careful. Her precision is stunning, her expertise severe: “I am not telling you the law as we hope it to be, I am telling you the law as it actually is,” she wrote to me when we were in the throws of it. It made me trust her. Her passion is implicit, impeachable. She doesn’t need to prove it. That freed up a lot of time for logic, planning, and real work, and that combination was ferocious. Anna picked up every single one of my many, many calls. She never tried to play therapist, she was a lawyer. She defended me. She is always kind, but unsentimental, and exceedingly realistic. This would be a person incapable of bullshit. With hindsight, I suspect this is because she cares so much about her clients, enough to understand that giving one false hope would be cruel. We won my case. A seven figure settlement, ten times the initial estimate. Anna, I think, was surprised, and I agreed the results were pretty unbelievable, though I was not that surprised. I watched her build my case, manage my expectations, tell me the truth, even when the truth was awful. We were honest, prepared. It’s been a year since Anna first took my call. I was uncertain, ashamed, and generally terrified. People talk a lot about things like justice, and I talked a lot about wanting it, though I don’t think I knew what it meant until the night we won. I felt like I was worthy, that my experience was just as meaningful as the next person, as his experience. Sometimes I say the number in my head, because it is so unbelievable. I proved my worth that night. He had to pay for what he did. I no longer need to prove a thing. I have guts. I am still not sure how to thank someone for a gift that big. The word gratitude seems too small. Anna showed me how to have worth.