As a principal of the firm, Anisko has a reason to be proud. “I’ve been [with Kaplin Stewart] since 1999 when we had 11 lawyers,” she told The Suit Magazine. “Now we have 33.” Anisko is a member of the firm's Commercial Litigation and Land Use & Zoning departments. Anisko has served as lead counsel on a wide variety of cases, including commercial disputes, real estate transaction disputes, land development and zoning disputes and disputes with state, county and municipal governments and agencies. “I litigate constitutional tort claims to protect the rights of individuals to use and develop their land in the manner they choose,” she said. “you have to be creative. You have to aggressive. To protect your client’s property rights in land use and zoning disputes, you sometimes have to sue government agencies and officials.” Anisko has filed petitions for certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court on land use issues and has argued land use issues before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
.Anisko, in her 30 year legal career, has represented clients in a wide variety of matters on both the local and national level. She represented an Oklahoma oil field services company in a $3.5 million fraud case involving an oil well fire in Uzbekistan. “I even represented a fighter in a lawsuit against Don King,” Anisko reminisced. “Every case is different.” She has represented plaintiffs and defendants.
In 2009 she scored a major victory for a local Delaware landowner in a case against a national home builder. At the height of the distressed housing market, the home builder tried to walk away from a phased land sale contract and stick the landowner with the cost of improvements it installed on the land including a costly sewage treatment plant. Anisko sued the builder for breach of contract and won. The homebuilder countersued for seeking over $20,000,000. Anisko won. At the conclusion of trial, the trial court awarded the landowner a $1 million deposit, denied the home builder’s claim and ordered the home builder to give the landowner access to the treatment plant .counter-at no charge. The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the trial court’s decision.
To Anisko, the most rewarding aspect of being a lawyer is getting a just result for her clients. To be a successful lawyer, she said “you have to have a passion for the law and be willing to work hard. I still want to make a difference,” she said.
Anisko attended Temple University’s James Beasley Law School in Pennsylvania. While at Temple, she was an editor of the Law Review and clerked for a Federal District Court judge. “I observed lawyers, read papers, did research, put together memoranda and drafted opinions,” she said. Anisko graduated cum laude in 1981.
Her professional mentors included her college professor Francis Graham Lee; her former partners at the Dilworth Paxson law firm where she started practicing law and perfected her commercial litigation skills and her current partner Marc Kaplan, an expert in land-use. In addition to her legal practice, she is a lecturer and gives seminars on various topics including property rights, land use and real estate law.
When it comes to being a woman in the realm of legal work, Anisko acknowledges challenges. But Anisko has proven that the challenges are no match for her ambition and dedication; her growing firm looks forward to continued success as it fights for justice, one case at a time.
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