About Emily

Emily Teplin Fox is an experienced civil rights litigator who represents workers, tenants, and others willing to stand up to powerful interests. After graduating from Yale Law School in 2007, Emily started her legal career as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Minnesota Disability Law Center. She has also clerked for federal judges, worked for a private law firm, and spent a decade litigating on behalf of low-income individuals at the Oregon Law Center.

Emily’s legal victories for her clients include:

• forcing the state’s unemployment insurance agency to get people their benefits faster;

• winning a jury trial for a worker whose employer violated a workplace safety rule;

• requiring a city to be fair and forgiving to people who owe court debt;

• negotiating over $1 million for ‘back of the house’ restaurant workers denied overtime wages.

Emily serves on the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association’s Amicus Committee; the boards of the Oregon Lawyers Against Hunger and the Oregon lawyers’ chapter of the American Constitution Society; and the judicial screening committee of the Multnomah Bar Association. The Multnomah Bar Association gave her the Award of Merit for co-developing a program to increase the diversity of Oregon’s bar.

Outside the office, Emily is a daily bike commuter, a music nerd, a dedicated (and sometimes embarrassing) mom and wife, and an expert on homemade pickles.