Anita Tanay

Anita Tanay is 1979 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, and has spent her entire career representing unions and employee benefit funds.

Ms. Tanay has represented labor clients in all aspects of the law. She is primarily responsible for representing, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 308, the Union for CTA rail employees, In that capacity, Ms. Tanay provides advice on contract interpretation issues, guidance on whether grievances should proceed to arbitration and handles and supervises the arbitrations of numerous grievances. She is also involved in contract negotations, interest arbitrations, and legislative iniatives involving the local, as well as litigation before the Illinois State Labor Relations Board and in state court.

Ms. Tanay is also special counsel to the Illinois Federation of Teachers regarding fair share fees. In her work with public pension funds, Ms. Tanay has represented the Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund in litigation involving administrative review of disability matters in both the Circuit and Appellate Courts of Illinois, and has assisted public pension funds in refining disability procedures. She has also advised public sector funds on various issues involving statutory construction of the Illinois Pension Code.

In the area of ERISA, Ms. Tanay has extensive experience in IRS compliance matters preparing required plan documents, monitoring plan compliance, evaluating disability pension applications, determining benefit eligibility, collecting benefits wrongfully converted by beneficiaries, evaluating proposed qualified domestic relations orders and collecting delinquent contributions.

Ms. Tanay is admitted to practice in Illinois (1980), Michigan (presently inactive), the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.