Practice Focus

Alternative Dispute Resolution, Complex Commercial Litigation, Election Law, Employment Litigation, Media, Products Liability, Professional Liability Defense

Experience

Emily is a trial attorney with extensive experience in federal and state courts. She also maintains a private mediation practice. She regularly defends legal, medical and other professional malpractice claims, and also defends clients in employment, media and civil rights litigation. Earlier in her career, Emily served as chief of the Civil Bureau in New Hampshire's Department of Justice. Emily is committed to actively and efficiently resolving problems in conjunction with clients. Emily's experience includes:

• Successfully defending obstetrician-gynecologists and other physicians before New Hampshire juries
• Successfully defending in the First Circuit an IP law firm's right to enforce the arbitration clause in a retainer agreement
• For over a decade, serving as legal counsel to WMUR-TV, New Hampshire's largest television station
• Obtaining a defendant's verdict in Fair Labor Standards Act litigation
• Negotiating a federal court consent decree in a class action involving thousands of plaintiffs, addressing the services available to educationally-handicapped youth in residential placements

Practice Areas

• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Commercial Litigation
• Employment
• Insurance Litigation
• Litigation
• Media and First Amendment
• Medical Malpractice and Risk Management
• Products Liability

Professional Activities

• Member of the mediation panels of the New Hampshire Superior Court, the United States District Court for New Hampshire, and the New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights
• Co-chair of the New Hampshire Campaign for Legal Services
• Court-appointed commissioner to oversee discovery in contentious commercial litigation
• Chair of the Advisory Committee on Rules of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
• Member, New Hampshire Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules
• Defense Research Institute
• Adjunct professor of law at Franklin Pierce Law Center
• Former member, Ballot Law Commission
• Former chair and member of the Board of Directors, New Hampshire Bar Foundation

Honors and Distinctions

• AV Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
• Cited in The Best Lawyers in America 2005, 2006 and 2007, for legal malpractice defense
• Recognized in Chambers USA, America's Leading Business Lawyers for employment law, 2004-2007, and for general commercial litigation, 2005-2007
• New Hampshire Women's Bar Association's Marilla Ricker Achievement Award, 2003
• New Hampshire Bar Association's E. Donald Dufresne Award for Outstanding Professionalism, 2006

Community Involvement

• Chair, Board of Directors, Red River Theatres, Inc.

Bar Admissions

Emily is admitted to practice in the state courts in New Hampshire, the Federal District Court in New Hampshire, and the First Circuit Court of Appeals.

Education

Boston University, B.A., cum laude, Philosophy and Political Science, 1977; Boston University, M.A., Political Science, 1979; Northeastern University Law School, J.D., 1984; Appellate Advocacy Course, Attorney General's Advocacy Institute at the United States Department of Justice.