Roseann Romano

At Keller Postman, Rosie’s represents clients in a wide range of disputes, including products liability, consumer protection, and employment matters. She is involved in investigating complex legal claims and developing legal strategy, preparing pleadings and discovery, and briefing motions and appeals. Currently, Rosie is a member of the litigation teams handling the firm’s Zantac and acetaminophen claims and supports the firm’s mass arbitration practice.

Rosie is listed as a District of Columbia Super Lawyers Rising Star, honored for outstanding professional achievement. She is also a two-time recipient of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs Outstanding Achievement Award and has received the Alan I. Widiss Faculty Scholar Award from the University of Iowa College of Law. She was also named to the D.C. Bar John Payton Leadership Academy.

Before joining Keller Postman, Rosie was an associate at Murphy Anderson PLLC, in Washington, D.C., where she represented workers and labor unions in state and federal litigation and arbitration matters. Among her most notable matters, Rosie assisted in successfully resolving wage-and-hour misclassification and race discrimination claims against a major construction company on behalf of over 250 workers. She has also litigated novel questions of law under District of Columbia wage-and-hour laws.

Rosie is active with the D.C. Bar Labor and Employment Law Community Steering Committee and the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association. She also serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors of First Shift Justice Project, a non-profit legal services organization supporting working parents, and as a member of the Board of Directors of Greater Greater Washington. In 2022, Rosie participated in the D.C. Bar John Payton Leadership Academy, an intensive training program for attorney leaders.

Rosie served as a law clerk to Judge Michael J. Melloy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Her clerkship experience included assisting with appeals in the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits. She graduated from the University of Iowa College of Law, where she served as the Senior Managing Editor of the Iowa Law Review. She also graduated magna cum laude from American University, where she studied political science and American studies.

Rosie is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia and Iowa only.