Attorney
Emmerson Mirus
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Nadia Riese
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Emmerson is an associate working in the firm’s Labor & Employment, Litigation, and Immigration Practice Groups. During her time as a law student, Emmerson clerked at Boardman Clark, externed in the Wisconsin Department of Justice’s Civil Litigation Unit, and served as the Senior Note & Comment Editor of the Wisconsin Law Review. Emmerson’s extensive legal writing experience helps her serve clients with a wide range of legal issues.
Admitted to Practice
- Wisconsin state courts
Education
- J.D., cum laude, University of Wisconsin Law School, 2025
- Wisconsin Law Review, Senior Note & Comment Editor, 2024-25
- Gwynette E. Smalley Law Review Prize, 2025
- William Herbert Page Award for the best student article on a Wisconsin topic in the Wisconsin Law Review, 2024
- Ray and Ethel Brown Award for character, leadership, and service, 2024
- Top performance in Civil Procedure II
- B.A., magna cum laude, Sociology and Spanish, Kenyon College, 2022
Emmerson’s Latest Writing & Presentations
DOL Clarifies That Exempt Employees May Take Additional Hourly Shifts Under Some Circumstances
HR Heads Up | 06.18.26
A recent U.S. DOL opinion letter addresses whether an employee who is exempt from overtime pay under the FLSA can take on additional non-exempt work for hourly pay without losing their exempt status.