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Springer Assumes AAUP Counsel Position
By Gwendolyn Bradley
This spring, Ann Springer assumed the position of counsel on the AAUP staff when the previous counsel, Donna Euben, stepped down after eight years to become counsel of the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee. Springer had previously served as associate counsel. She joined the AAUP staff in 2000.
As AAUP counsel, Springer directs the AAUP’s legal office, which advises college and university faculty, administrators, lawyers, and others on higher education legal issues; prepares amicus briefs on issues of interest to the Association, monitors legal developments in higher education around the country, and keeps the Association apprised of new and emerging legal issues that may have implications in areas such as labor and employment law, freedom of expression, and intellectual property rights. The legal office also works with experts from around the country in submitting friend-of-the-court briefs in key appellate cases, seeking to shape the law in ways supportive of Association principles. The staff attorneys collaborate with the AAUP general counsel, who is a law professor appointed to a renewable two-year term and who remains in his or her faculty position while serving the Association.
“I have worked closely with Ann since she joined the AAUP staff and am delighted that she has been promoted to staff counsel. Ann is an outstanding lawyer who is committed to the AAUP and experienced in the full range of its activities, from writing legal briefs in important cases to dealing with internal organizational issues,“ says David Rabban, AAUP general counsel and professor of law at the University of Texas, Austin.
Springer joined the AAUP from the faculty of the Washington College of Law at American University, where she was acting director of the Women and the Law Clinic. Previously, Springer practiced law at McCutchen, Doyle, Brown, and Enersen in San Francisco, where in addition to a general employment litigation practice she represented colleges and universities on labor and employment issues. She also served as a legislative assistant to Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, specializing in issues of the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Springer is a graduate of Wellesley College and Northwestern Law School.
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