Emma Guido Brill is an Associate in the firm's Litigation Department.  Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and employment law.  Ms. Brill also has experience advising corporate clients on a range of employment, corporate governance, and executive compensation matters, including in mergers and acquisitions and other corporate and transactional matters, as well as representing debtors in Chapter 11 restructuring proceedings.

Before joining the firm, Ms. Brill served as a law clerk for the Hon. Vincent L. Briccetti of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She previously worked as an associate in the New York office of an international law firm. In 2025, she was honored by the New York Legal Assistance Group with its 2025 Champion of Justice Award.

  • Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (J.D., summa cum laude)
    • Order of the Coif
    • Editor-in-Chief, Cardozo Law Review
  • University of Maryland (B.A.)

  • Representing engineered stone distributor in patent infringement action pending before the International Trade Commission.
  • Represented an individual executive in an internal company investigation involving claims of hostile work environment, retaliation, and improper disclosure of confidential company information.
  • Represented private equity subsidiary defending against claims of trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, and copyright infringement, as well as in countersuit asserting trademark infringement and Lanham Act claims.
  • Represented prestigious institution of higher learning in New York City defending against Title VI claims of hostile work environment.
  • Represent healthcare client defending against product liability claims, including in connection with administration of COVID-19 vaccine.
  • Represented healthcare client as plaintiff asserting claims for tortious interference with contract and deceptive trade practices arising out of alleged misappropriation of patient assistance funds.
  • Represented private equity company defending against claims by a former employee of whistleblower retaliation under the New York Labor Law.
  • Representing registered investment advisor in connection with investigation conducted by the SEC.

Pro Bono

  • Representing pro bono a man wrongfully convicted of attempted murder in seeking to overturn his 1997 criminal conviction.
  • Represented large class of disabled consumers in suing the New York Department of Health for violation of rights under the Medicaid Act and the Due Process Clause.
  • Representing naturalized United States citizen in his federal lawsuit seeking to compel adjudication of follow-to-join family reunification petitions.
  • Represented criminal defendant in youth resentencing proceedings before the First Department, Appellate Division.*
  • Advised legal services organization regarding attorneys’ professional responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.*

Representations denoted with an asterisk were completed prior to joining Patterson Belknap.

  • New York
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York

  • Member (2025-present); Secretary (2020-2022)*, New York State Bar Association Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct (COSAC)

  • Note, Till v. SCS Credit Corporation: A “Prime-Plus-Plus” Method Tilling Courts to Consider Efficient Market Evidence, 38 Cardozo L. Rev. 269 (2016).