Emily is an attorney and engineer who believes that understanding your client's business is the key to being a great attorney.

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Emily is a patent attorney who focuses her practice on all aspects of intellectual property, helping clients to patent their inventions, perform IP due diligence, and enforce their own and defend against others’ patent rights. She also routinely helps clients negotiate a variety of agreements, with a focus on those with important IP-related considerations.

Before becoming an attorney, Emily worked as an engineer in the power generation industry, where she worked at companies that employed as few as two dozen employees to Fortune 500 companies. Her experiences at companies big and small enables her to provide unique insights to clients as she supports her clients’ core businesses.

An active firm citizen, Emily regularly assists in the recruitment and mentorship of summer associates in the Philadelphia office.

Emily is a patent attorney who focuses her practice on all aspects of intellectual property, helping clients to patent their inventions, perform IP due diligence, and enforce their own and defend against others’ patent rights. She also routinely helps clients negotiate a variety of agreements, with a focus on those with important IP-related considerations.

Before becoming an attorney, Emily worked as an engineer in the power generation industry, where she worked at companies that employed as few as two dozen employees to Fortune 500 companies. Her experiences at companies big and small enables her to provide unique insights to clients as she supports her clients’ core businesses.

An active firm citizen, Emily regularly assists in the recruitment and mentorship of summer associates in the Philadelphia office.

  • Co-chair of IP Section, Philadelphia Bar Association, 2024-present
  • Member, Widger Advisory Board, Villanova Law, 2024-present
  • Co-chair of Junior Members, Daughters of the American Revolution, Great Valley, 2016-2021
  • Legal intern, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, 2019
  • Legal intern, UGI Corporation, 2018
  • Programs engineer, Exelon, 2015-2017
  • Design engineer, Talen Energy, 2015
  • Design engineer, PPL, 2014-2015
  • Mechanical engineer, WMG, 2012-2013

Education

  • Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, J.D., 2020, Widger Scholar
  • Villanova University, B.S., 2012, mechanical engineering (focus on thermal/fluids)

Bar Admissions

  • Pennsylvania
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania