SPEAKING AND WRITING

Justice Emerson has served as a panelist or as a speaker at numerous conferences, seminars, and moot court programs.

Select engagements include:

• Judge for Final Round of Statewide Mediation Competition (New York State Bar Dispute Resolution Section March 2023 and March 2024).
• Pandemic Challenges and Opportunities (New York State Bar Annual Meeting Commercial and Federal Litigation Section 2023).
• Comparative Analysis of New York and Delaware Law (New York State Bar Association Annual Meeting Commercial and Federal Litigation Section 2023).
• Corporate Successor Liability in Merger and Acquisition Transactions (American Bar Association Business Law Section 2022).
• International Law in the Courts: A Judicial Roundtable (American Bar Association International Law Section 2020).
• The Formation and Administration of Business Courts (American College of Business Court Judges 2020).
• Complex Commercial Case Management in the Post Covid Era – Business Interruption Insurance (The National Center for State Courts 2020).
• Evolving Law of Restrictive Covenants (American College of Business Court Judges   2019).
• Judge for Mock Trial (New York State Bar Association Commercial and Federal Litigation Section Project for Achieving Equity for Woman Attorneys in the Courtroom   2018).
• Keynote Speaker: Dispute Resolution between The United States and China featuring PRC Supreme Justice, Chief Judge of the Shanghai Court and Dean of the Sanghai Mediation Center (Fordham University 2017).

Justice Emerson has also taught in a number of well-regarded MBA programs. She has also designed and implemented training programs on a variety of subjects. Finally, while in private practice, Justice Emerson was responsible for certain aspects of training for lawyers within her firm and for conducting training for select corporate clients.

PUBLISHED WORKS

Since 2004 Justice Emerson has authored Chapter 101 Secured Transactions in the highly regarded multi volume treatise Commercial Litigation in the New York State Courts. Justice Emerson has also authored numerous articles that have appeared in various bar publications.

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DECISIONS

Justice Emerson has numerous published decisions addressing a variety of matters associated with complex commercial litigation including and without limitation, banking, business torts, contracts and employment matters, franchising and insurance, mergers and acquisitions, securities, shareholder derivative claims, business dissolutions, trademark infringement and unfair competition and real estate.

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TRANSACTIONS

During her time in private practice Justice Emerson represented a variety of clients including banks and investment banks, fortune 100 companies across a number of different industries.