Overview
Emily is a natural storyteller. She always knows the facts, pays attention to the details and most importantly, knows how to communicate complex ideas in a way that makes sense. She leaves no box unchecked when advocating for her clients.
As a member of the firm’s Business Litigation Service Group, Emily provides guidance on a variety of commercial litigation matters including real estate disputes, trust and estates disputes, contract disputes, and healthcare litigation.
Prior to law school, Emily studied journalism and built a public relations career telling the stories of both public and private sector clients in the healthcare, food and beverage, agriculture, and gaming industries. She now leverages her communications experience in her legal advocacy.
Experience
- Happy Public Domain Day!
Happy Public Domain Day!Public Domain Day is one of the lesser known winter holidays celebrated by the elite few – artists of all sorts and copyright attorneys. We either mourn the passing of works into the public domain after decades of keeping them safe and warm or hail the expiration of long-held copyrights in anticipation of new, insightful, adaptive, and creative uses of these works and characters.
- The Challenge of Serving in Black Robes, Not White Coats: The Second District Affirms the Denial of Patients’ Requests for Ivermectin
The Challenge of Serving in Black Robes, Not White Coats: The Second District Affirms the Denial of Patients’ Requests for IvermectinRead Edna McLain’s recent article, “The Challenge of Serving in Black Robes, Not White Coats: The Second District Affirms the Denial of Patients’ Requests for Ivermectin” in IDC Quarterly!
- Hold the Phones: State-level Telemarketing Laws In Effect
Hold the Phones: State-level Telemarketing Laws In EffectKeep up to date with both the federal TCPA requirements and several state-level statutes!
- Illinois Pre-Judgment Interest Statute Declared Unconstitutional
Illinois Pre-Judgment Interest Statute Declared UnconstitutionalOn May 27, 2022, Judge Marcia Maras in the Circuit Court of Cook County issued a memorandum, holding Illinois’s recently enacted prejudgment interest statute unconstitutional, and holding that the legislation violated both the right of trial by jury and the prohibition against special legislation.
Services
Education
University of Wisconsin Law School, J.D., cum laude
University of Missouri, B.A.
Admissions
- Illinois
- Wisconsin