Anne Hamer

Anne focuses her divorce practice on high asset, high conflict cases. She believes that divorce should be handled with professionalism and discretion, and works to diffuse destructive, expensive tactics from overly aggressive opposing counsel, always aiming to maintain the clients’ privacy while preserving assets for settlement. Anne draws from her extensive litigation experience, as well as her work as a trained mediator, to obtain results her clients can not only live with, but live well.

Raising her two children as a single mother has taught her many life lessons that go beyond traditional legal services. When it comes to parenting, winning an argument or dispute is not always the most important goal.

Serving a child’s best interest can require standing up for what is right or reaching a smart compromise. Either way, guiding parents through these mine fields is very rewarding. Anne works with her clients to develop parenting plans that allow the children to thrive in a new family structure.

A nationally recognized speaker for family lawyers, Anne was recently invited to present to the ABA Family Law Section Spring Conference. She currently practices law in Memphis and Nashville. Anne is a Rule 31 trained civil and family law mediator, and has also completed domestic violence mediation training.

In 2022, Anne was elected to SuperLawyers in Tennessee. According to SuperLawyers.com, “Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The patented selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.”

  • The most rewarding aspect of my practice

    has always been helping people get

    through a difficult time and getting

    them to the next step of their life

    which is going to be amazing I can say

    unequivocally that I have never

    represented somebody in a divorce whose

    life didn’t turn out better afterward I

    know it from my own personal experience

    and I feel like because of that I’m able

    to tell my clients this is what I

    promise is going to happen 100%

    guaranteed and it has turned out every

    single time so I feel like that’s

    something so important to me when the

    people come to me and I meet them for

    the first time and I think oh my

    goodness your life’s going to change but

    I promise it’s going to be better and I

    just love being part of that Catalyst uh

    for them to realize the new Next Step of

    their

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    life one of the things that I think uh

    sets me apart as a divorc lawyer is my

    background and my education and my

    experience I myself am divorced I’m a

    divorc single mom so I understand

    divorce from a very personal standpoint

    at the same time I was educated at a top

    five Law School New York University I’ve

    worked for the premier law firm in

    Tennessee basaran Sims and I learned to

    litigate from some of the top litigators

    in the state in a way that is pretty

    unique in the um realm of divorce world

    with that experience I then went into

    family law and took that background and

    that experience and that education with

    me to elevate my practice and the way

    that I believe family law ought to be

    practice the way I like to work in court

    the way I like to work with opposing

    Council that is um I think sort of a

    Hallmark for me about how I’ve created a

    practice that’s different uh from what I

    think you’ll typically see in in a

    boutique Force firm

A leader in the legal community, Anne is past chair of the Family Law Committee of the Memphis Bar Association, and is an active member of the American Bar Association, the Nashville Bar Association, and the Association of Women Attorneys. Anne has successfully completed the prestigious ABA Family Law Trial Advocacy course at the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, and was a member of the inaugural class of Tennessee Leadership.

She is active in her community as well, serving on the board of the Tennessee Shakespeare Company, and as a volunteer fundraiser for The Children’s Museum of Memphis, Hutchison School, and St. George’s Church.

She has served as a room mom, PTO Treasurer, and a member of the Diversity Committee at her children’s schools, as well as their soccer and basketball coach, and Sunday School teacher.

Before becoming a family law attorney, she practiced with Bass, Berry & Sims, PLC in Nashville and Wolff Ardis, P.C. in Memphis, handling complex commercial litigation. Anne graduated from New York University School of Law in 1996 and with high honors from the University of Tennessee in 1989, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

For fun, Anne travels with her two daughters, both of whom are adopted and Hispanic. They travel to Mexico annually to foster the girls’ relationships with their birth families, practice Spanish and experience the rich Mexican culture. 

Anne spends her free time driving to her girls’ athletic and social events and playing tennis. In 2018, she was the second oldest woman to complete the StrongFirst Level One Kettlebell Instructor certification course.