About

William J. Anthony is a Principal in the Albany, New York and Hartford, Connecticut offices of Jackson Lewis P.C.  Mr. Anthony earned a B.A. from Hamilton College in 1985 and graduated from Boston University School of Law in 1989.  Upon graduation, he joined the San Francisco office of Jackson Lewis, transferred to the firm’s Morristown office in 1991 and was named Managing Partner of the firm’s Hartford office in 2000.  Mr. Anthony served as Managing Partner of the Hartford office until 2008 and on the firm’s Management Committee for a number of years.  Mr. Anthony is the Chair of the firm’s National Class Action Practice Group.

Mr. Anthony has handled numerous class and collective actions including wage and hour claims alleging claims for improper payment of bonuses, misclassification of customer service employees, dispatchers, assistant retail managers, time share resort salespeople, pharmaceutical sales representatives and installation technicians and failure to pay minimum wage to tipped employees.  Mr. Anthony has handled class and/or collective actions in CT, MA, NJ, PA, IL, FL, TN, CA and WA.