Emily Margolin is a Junior Associate at Slater Slater Schulman, advocating for adult survivors of sexual abuse.

Emily compassionately represents survivors through a client-centered approach, creating individualized strategies to meet her clients’ unique needs. She fosters authentic working relationships steeped in empowering practices, including empathizing with survivors’ past traumas and valuing self-preservation. As a result, Emily’s clients feel confident in facing the challenging nature of litigation, knowing she is there to advocate for their best interests.

Prior to joining Slater Slater Schulman, Emily worked in tenant defense law at the Legal Aid Society through the Bronx Housing Court, where she advocated for low-income families to prevent evictions and housing instability. Emily frequently counseled her clients through the system’s complexities, navigating housing subsidies and benefits applications and arguing in the housing court on their behalf.

Additionally, Emily gained valuable experience via legal internships in civil rights law and class-action lawsuits surrounding New York City policing practices. She assisted in various civil rights cases and conducted extensive research on voting rights matters, including race-based voter suppression, redistricting, and election protection. Before this, Emily successfully served as a paralegal for the U.S. Attorneys Office, Southern District of New York, standing as a two-time winner of the Department of Justice award for outstanding effort and exceptional work.

Emily received her B.A. in Political Science from Kenyon College and her J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she received the Cardozo Service and Achievement Award and the Inspire! Student Impact Award for public service. Emily joined the firm in July 2024.