Adrianna Shannon

Adrianna Shannon is a diligent and thorough litigator, and a dedicated advocate for employees’ workplace and civil rights. She has successfully represented thousands of individual and class action plaintiffs in state and federal courts, arbitrations, and administrative proceedings.

Adrianna has extensive experience representing employees in a variety of employment matters, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, contract, severance, just cause, and complex wage and hour disputes. She frequently represents victims of age, marital status, religious, disability, sexual orientation, race, pregnancy, and national origin discrimination and retaliation. She has tried several cases to verdict, including sex and pregnancy discrimination, whistleblower, reprisal/retaliation, unpaid commissions, and breach of contract cases, and has practiced before the United States Supreme Court.

Adrianna joined Nichols Kaster as an associate attorney in 2007. Prior to joining Nichols Kaster, Adrianna clerked at the Wisconsin Department of Justice in the Civil Rights Employment Litigation Unit, where she wrote winning briefs in the federal district court in the areas of sexual harassment, race discrimination, disability rights, and state and federal whistleblower statutes.

Admissions

• United States Supreme Court
• Minnesota Supreme Court
• Wisconsin Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• U.S. District Court – District of Minnesota
• U.S. District Court – Western District of Wisconsin

Education

• J.D. University of Wisconsin Law School, cum laude
• B.A. University of Minnesota-Duluth

Titles / Awards / Memberships

• Outstanding Achievement Awards in Constitutional Law, Legal Writing, Negotiations, and Health Law & Administration
• Wisconsin Law Review Outstanding Contribution Award
• American Bar Association Member
• American Association for Justice Member
• Minnesota NELA Employment Lawyers Association Member
• Minnesota Women Lawyers Association Member
• Wisconsin State Bar Association Member

Languages

• Sign Language