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Emily assists clients in complying with environmental laws and regulations, including permitting and advising on the implementation of various environmental requirements with a focus on transactional matters and environmental due diligence. She focuses her practice primarily on helping clients identify and navigate environmental risks in asset and equity transactions in addition to advising on compliance and enforcement risk reduction strategies. Emily has experience with most of the major federal environmental statutes, in particular with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, and state Brownfield and voluntary cleanup laws.

Emily’s pro bono practice includes helping landowners secure conservation easements and advising small nonprofit organizations on business matters.

  • Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch: Environmental Law (2026)

Emily assists clients in complying with environmental laws and regulations, including permitting and advising on the implementation of various environmental requirements with a focus on transactional matters and environmental due diligence. She focuses her practice primarily on helping clients identify and navigate environmental risks in asset and equity transactions in addition to advising on compliance and enforcement risk reduction strategies. Emily has experience with most of the major federal environmental statutes, in particular with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, and state Brownfield and voluntary cleanup laws.

Emily’s pro bono practice includes helping landowners secure conservation easements and advising small nonprofit organizations on business matters.

  • Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch: Environmental Law (2026)
  • Equal Justice Works Rural Summer Legal Corp fellow, 2018
  • Law clerk at Legal Aid of West Virginia, 2018

Education

  • Indiana University Maurer School of Law, J.D., 2020
  • Indiana University O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, M.P.A., 2020
  • Maryville College, B.A., 2015

Bar Admissions

  • Virginia
  • Presenter, Environment Virginia Symposium, 2024.