Emma is part of the firm’s Emerging Data Privacy Trends practice, and she concentrates her practice on commercial litigation and regulatory business counseling. In her litigation practice, Emma represents clients in class actions, multiparty, and individual litigation in federal and state courts and in arbitration. She focuses her practice on defending against lawsuits involving the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), ransomware and data breach, session replay/wiretapping, pixel tracking, consumer-protection statutes, and various tort claims and contractual disputes. In her regulatory practice, Emma counsels clients regarding regulatory proceedings, state and federal financial incentives and opportunities, and emerging regulations and legislation in both the privacy and the energy sectors.
Of particular relevance to her role within the firm’s Emerging Data Privacy Trends practice, Emma has extensive experience in all stages of data breach incident response. Emma has counseled clients experiencing cybersecurity and data-related incidents by guiding them through the complex regulatory landscape governing data breach notifications. She has helped clients assess and fulfill their notification obligations to both individuals and regulatory authorities and advised them of best practices to help minimize the risk of future incidents. Emma has worked closely with clients to help create and implement security policies, procedures, and related measures tailored to their organizational and business needs. She also monitors trends in cybersecurity and data privacy legislation, regulations, initiatives, and litigation across the nation to help clients anticipate and plan for potential changes.
Emma also has experience counseling clients in the energy sector regarding all aspects of their business operations, including tracking regulatory proceedings, funding opportunity announcements, proposed rules, and guidance published by both state and federal agencies to identify and assist clients in participating in those of importance to clients' particular business needs.
Prior to joining the firm, Emma was an associate in the Princeton, N.J. office of a national law firm where she split her practice between commercial litigation and regulatory business counseling.
Emma earned her B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara and earned her J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law, where she was a senior editor of the Seton Hall Law Review. During law school, Emma served as a law-student extern for the United States Attorneys’ Office for the District of New Jersey and as a Corporate Compliance Fellow in the Legal Department of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey.