Attorney Anthony Stites represents business entities in all facets of their employment matters. On a daily basis, he works with human resource personnel and in-house counsel to prevent or solve problems in the employment arena. Tony assists all sizes of employers ranging from very small businesses through large publicly traded corporations. 

With an emphasis in the transportation and manufacturing sectors, Tony has presented hundreds of supervisor training sessions throughout the U.S. He has extensive experience in strike activity and trial experience defending employers in all areas of employment matters. Tony also serves as a mediator for alternate dispute resolution.

• Representing a regional corporation in the termination of their president.
• Taking an attorney fee award against the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
• Defending the drug testing policy of a company through a federal jury trial.
• Representing numerous manufacturing facilities during downsizing negotiations with unions.
• Handled numerous union election campaigns with clients in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, and Michigan.
• Handled decertification petitions and decertification elections in Ohio and Indiana.

Professional Honors

• Received the Niemann Citation for Excellence and Professionalism from the Allen County Bar Association, September 2023
• AV^® Preeminent™ rated attorney based on Martindale-Hubbell's peer review ratings.
• Selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers in America^® from 2007-2012 and since 2014.
• Selected for inclusion since 2016 in the Best Lawyers® in America publication in the areas of employment law- management, labor law- management, labor law- union, and litigation - labor and employment.
• Recognized by Best Lawyers in America^®as "Lawyer of the Year," Fort Wayne in:
  • Employment Law - Management, 2017, 2018 and 2024
  • Litigation- Labor and Employment, 2020, 2023 and 2025
  • Labor Law- Management, 2023 and 2025
• Selected a Paul Harris Fellow for his lifetime contributions to the Fort Wayne not-for-profit sector.
• Selected as the Notre Dame Club of Fort Wayne's 2015 "Person of the Year".

Professional and Community Involvement

• Member, Allen County (Indiana) Bar Association
• Member, Indiana State Bar Association
  • Past chair, Indiana Bar Association's Labor, Employment & Benefit Law Section
• Member, Ohio Bar Association
• Fellow, Indiana Bar Foundation
  • Member, Indiana Bar Foundation Board of Directors
• Member, Fort Wayne Mad Anthonys Inc.
  • Executive Committee Member, 2021- present

* AV® Preeminent™ is a certification mark of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards, and policies. The AV rating is a testament to the fact that a lawyer's peers rank him or her at the highest level of professional excellence.

• Indiana
• Ohio
• U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth and Seventh Circuits

• B.B.A, Finance, University of Toledo
• J.D., University of Notre Dame