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
Understanding Illinois’s New NICU Leave Law
HR Heads Up | 10.07.25
Illinois recently passed the Neonatal Intensive Care Leave Act (NICLA), which creates strong workplace protections for parents with newborns who require intensive medical care. Here is what employers with Illinois employees should know about this new leave law before it takes effect on June 1, 2026.