Proskauer

Emily Kline is an associate in the Litigation Department. Her practice covers a variety of complex commercial litigation matters, involving trade secret misappropriation, shareholder derivative suits and antitrust. Emily has experience in all stages of litigation, including drafting pleadings, coordinating discovery, briefing dispositive and discovery motions, preparing witnesses for depositions and trial, and drafting appellate briefs. She has represented clients in both state and federal courts as well as in arbitrations and government investigations.

Emily maintains a diverse pro bono practice. She has represented multiple clients seeking specialized visas for victims of gender-based violence and for minors who have been abandoned. Emily serves as Special Assistant Corporation Counsel in the New York City Law Department and has taken over a dozen depositions on behalf of the City. She played a significant role in drafting an amicus brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of 30 historians and legal scholars in support of appellees in Alexander v. The South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, which challenged alleged racial gerrymandering in South Carolina.

Emily clerked for the Honorable Chad F. Kenney of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Before joining Proskauer, Emily earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was an editor of the Human Rights Law Review. While at Columbia, she interned at Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, a legal services nonprofit as well as in the Consumer Frauds and Protections Bureau of New York State Attorney General’s Office. Emily also worked as a judicial intern for the Honorable Kiyo A. Matsumoto at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Prior to law school, Emily served for two years as a Teach for America Corps Member in Oakland, California. She has a B.A. in History from Northwestern University.