Emily is an experienced litigator recognized for her wide-ranging white-collar expertise, with notable strength in healthcare and securities cases as well as all types of government investigations. She also maintains a dynamic practice representing and strategically advising companies and individuals in complex civil litigation involving healthcare, business, and environmental litigation, as well as administrative and regulatory matters.
Emily’s recent experience includes representation of potential defendants in federal environmental, cybersecurity, medical billing, public corruption, export compliance, and tax fraud investigations, and successful plea negotiation for a client facing up to thirty years in prison for federal wire and bank fraud charges resulting in a sentence of probation and home confinement. She also regularly negotiates business resolutions in complex civil cases with millions of dollars at stake, defends doctors, dentists, and nurses before state disciplinary boards, and has helped students accused of academic, behavioral, and other infractions resolve situations with the administrative and academic conduct boards.
Emily does not shy away from collaboratively working with her clients, opposing counsel, and government agencies to narrow issues and creatively negotiate resolutions, and believes many contentious situations can be improved or even resolved by sitting down face-to-face to work through tough questions. That same collaborative mindset and desire to help drive her activities outside the office where she spends significant time serving as the President of the Atlanta Bar Association, leader of the Women’s White Collar Defense Association Atlanta Chapter, and an enthusiastic mentor with UGA.
In addition to practicing law and working within the legal community, Emily is a driven entrepreneur. Over the past six years, she helped found and run two thriving Atlanta restaurants, Southern Belle and Georgia Boy, taking them from concept to Michelin Guide recommendation. In her spare time, she can usually be found spending time with her two handsome dogs, attending live music everywhere from Symphony Hall to the Buckhead Theater, or working on a jigsaw puzzle with friends.
Bar and Community Activities
- Atlanta Bar Association
- President (2024-2025)
- President Elect (2023-2024)
- Criminal Law Section Chair (2022-2023)
- Women in the Profession Section Chair (2019-2020)
- State Bar of Georgia
- Leadership Academy (2019)
- Young Lawyers Division Litigation Committee Co-Chair (2019-2020)
- American Bar Association
- Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
- Advisory Council (2023-Present)
- BRAVO! Young Professional Board (2019-2023)
Rankings and Recognition
- Chambers USA, Litigation White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations – Band 3, Georgia (2022-2024)
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America, Administrative/Regulatory Law; Commercial Litigation; Criminal Defense: White-Collar, Atlanta (2022-2024)
- Atlanta Business Chronicle: 40 Under 40 (2023)
- Georgia Super Lawyers, Rising Star (2022-2023)
- Daily Report's Georgia Legal Awards, On the Rise (2022)
- Young Alumnae of Excellence Award, University of Georgia School of Law (2022)
- Catherine M. O’Neil Mentoring Award, Women’s White Collar Defense Association (2019)
- Outstanding Graduate, National Organization for Women (2013)
- Outstanding Service and Leadership Award, UGA Moot Court Society (2013)