Wendy LaManque (she/her) joined AGMA as Eastern Counsel in 2019. In February 2022, she was promoted to Eastern Counsel and Director of Organizational Compliance.
Prior to her time at AGMA, LaManque worked as an attorney at Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP for six years where she represented labor unions and employees across multiple industries, including airline pilots, maintenance workers, letter carriers, nurses, and entertainment industry professionals.
LaManque received her Bachelor's Degree from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and is a graduate of Brooklyn Law School. During her time at Brooklyn Law School, she served as a legal intern to the NYC Office of Collective Bargaining, Region 29 of the National Labor Relations Board, AFTRA (now SAG-AFTRA), Actors' Equity Association, and the Communications Workers of America District 1 legal department as a Peggy Browning Fund Fellow.
LaManque has been quoted in numerous entertainment industry publications, and her writing published in the New York State Bar Association Labor & Employment Law Journal and the Syracuse Law Review. She has been a guest speaker and CLE presenter on panels and webinars for the AFL-CIO Union Lawyers Alliance, the New York State Bar Association, the Peggy Browning Fund Summer Fellowship Series, and Cornell University's ILR Labor Roundtable. In 2020, she received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Brooklyn Lawn School's Labor and Employment Law Association.