Emily Madoff - New York, NY

Emily Madoff is the Managing Partner of Wolf Popper LLP.

Throughout her career, Emily has used the law to drive socio-political change, often protecting the public from consumer fraud. Emily recently focused on the rampant problems with surprise medical bills; she was instrumental in developing the Firm's cases in this area, several of which have settled with full recovery for the class. Emily presently is concentrating on using the law to expedite the benefits of diversity and inclusion.

A commercial attorney, Emily was mentored by Marty Popper, eventually inheriting his practice. As such, Emily has represented several missions to the United Nations and various governments and government officials. She is proud to have represented personally some early social justice luminaries, such as Freda Diamond and Ring Lardner Jr. To this day, Emily represents the Georgian artist, Zurab Tsereteli, an internationally-acclaimed monumentalist and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, whose works are installed worldwide, including "Good Defeats Evil," which statue sits on the front grounds of the United Nations headquarters in New York City. The Tsereteli family owns the largest winery in Georgia, producing Tsereteli Wine.

Emily has published many articles about the law, including for the New York Law Journal, an article explaining litigation funding (Analyzing the Fundamentals of Litigation Funding, August 19, 2013) and one about arbitration clauses in consumer contracts (Mandatory Arbitration Clauses in Consumer Contracts, July 5, 2016) and for Latin Lawyer, an article about the securities litigation spawned in the United States as a result of the Petrobras scandal in Brazil (Bringing 'big oil' to the Big Apple, March 2015), for a few examples.

Ms. Madoff is a graduate of Connecticut College (B.A., 1973), and Northeastern University School of Law (J.D., 1979). She is admitted to the Bars of the State of New York, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.