Emily Margolis is an experienced civil litigator and government investigations advisor. She brings a practical, supportive, efficient approach to addressing her clients' needs, in particular involving high-profile matters, commercially sensitive issues, and reputational defense. She represents individual and corporate clients as plaintiffs and defendants in complex commercial disputes in state and federal courts, and in criminal and civil enforcement matters brought by state and federal agencies. Emily handles all stages of litigation and enforcement actions, including investigation, discovery, motion practice, alternative dispute resolution, hearings, arbitrations, and trial.
Emily's experience includes disputes involving corporate raiding, misappropriation of trade secrets, and theft of confidential information; white collar investigations by federal regulators and state Attorneys General; financial fraud and data privacy; complex securities class actions; financial services regulatory issues; and commercial business disputes in the technology space. Her government enforcement experience includes defending one of the largest administrative regulatory actions in US banking history that resulted in a favorable result for her client.
Emily maintains an active pro bono practice including indigent criminal defense, particularly capital defense, and prisoner civil rights cases.
Emily clerked for the Honorable Nathanael M. Cousins of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
During law school, she was elected Managing Editor of the California Law Review and was a member of the Berkeley Law Death Penalty Clinic.
Emily's Note was published in the California Law Review, Volume 106.
