Advisory Board
Richard Emery
Richard Emery is a Senior Partner at Emery Celli Cuti Brinckerhoff & Abady,
P.C., a litigation firm in New York City specializing in civil rights,
commercial litigation, election law, intellectual property and entertainment
law. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme
Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Ninth and
Federal Circuits, the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of New York, Southern District of New York, Eastern District
of Washington and Western District of Washington, New York State
and Washington State.
Notably, Emery won a widely publicized case for a church worker
and Radcliffe graduate who were falsely arrested as prostitutes. He
also represented several New York City subway riders falsely arrested
by rogue transit police.
A recipient of numerous awards and honor, Emery recently received
the Common Cause/NY "I Love an Ethical New York" Award
for recognition of successful challenges to New York's unconstitutionally
burdensome ballot access laws and overall work to promote a more
open democracy. He was honored with New York Magazine’s "The
Best Lawyers in New York" Award for recognition of successful
Civil Rights litigation.
Emery is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New
York, Committee on Election Law, Civil Rights Committee, Criminal
Justice Operations Committee, Criminal Advocacy Committee, Criminal
Courts Committee, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Municipal
Arts Society Legal Committee, Governor's Commission on Integrity
in Government and Commission on Judicial Conduct.
Emery received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University
in 1967. In 1970, he graduated cum laude from Columbia Law
School where he was recognized as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
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