Emily Gianquinto counsels employers on day-to-day employment matters and represents them in federal and state litigation. She has helped resolve disputes for clients across numerous industries, including healthcare, energy, manufacturing, professional services, banking, and nonprofits. Emily has experience with all aspects of litigation, from pre-suit negotiations through bench and jury trials and the appeals process, and regularly defends clients before administrative bodies and courts and in domestic and international mediations and arbitrations. She has defended employers against claims of discrimination, harassment and retaliation and helped them navigate wage and hour disputes and matters concerning the enforcement of non-compete and non-solicitation agreements. She has defended hospitals and physician groups in litigation involving termination of physicians’ privileges and employment.
In addition to her employment experience, Emily has handled litigation covering complex contractual disputes, products liability litigation, environmental litigation, shareholder fiduciary duty and business dissolution disputes, unfair trade practice claims, trademark and copyright lawsuits, litigation arising out of fraudulent transfers, and insurance litigation. She has also advised clients concerning responding to government inquiries and subpoenas and addressing government regulation and licensing matters. This varied background enables her to effectively counsel clients concerning the broader implications surrounding a particular employment dispute.
Before entering private practice, Emily served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Flemming L. Norcott, Jr. of the Connecticut Supreme Court and worked as a technical editor in the pharmaceutical industry before obtaining her law degree.
Emily is active in the bar community and in the Hartford community. She has been heavily involved in the Connecticut Bar Association, including holding leadership positions on the Board of Governors and House of Delegates, and currently serves as its President-Elect, co-chair of the Pro Bono Committee, chair of the Legislative Policy and Review Committee, and chair of the Connecticut Council of Bar Presidents. She is also a member of the American Bar Association House of Delegates and a Fellow of both the Connecticut Bar Foundation and the American Bar Foundation. Since 2017, Emily has also been a member of the board of KNOX, Inc., a nonprofit urban greening organization that has been in operation for more than 50 years. She served as its president for more than six years.
