Emily S. McGrath

Emily McGrath exclusively represents employees in trial and appeal, arbitration, and negotiations against their employers. Since joining Barbara and Therese Lawless in 2013, Emily has fought on behalf of hundreds of clients and is committed to providing compassionate counsel to those navigating a complicated legal system during a difficult period in their lives.

 Emily has been selected as a Super Lawyers Rising Star (an honor awarded to no more than 2.5 percent of attorneys in California) each year since 2018. In addition, she serves on the Executive Committee of the Litigation and Solo/Small Firm sections of the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Barristers Club and actively contributes to other professional organizations such as the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association and the Lawyers Club of San Francisco Inn of Court. 

 Before beginning her career as an employment litigator, Emily was a misdemeanor trial attorney at the San Francisco Public Defender's Office. Emily attended law school at University of California, Hastings College of the Law. While there, she served as an Executive Editor for the International and Comparative Law Review, a Constitutional Law teaching assistant, and a research assistant for one of her professors. Emily also externed with Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero and published an article on surrogacy contract regulations during her third year.

 Before law school, Emily graduated from Princeton University with degrees in Intellectual & Cultural History, Neuroscience, and French. She worked as a news writer for the Daily Princetonian, an Emergency Medical Technician in a nearby town in New Jersey, and a Project Manager for an Engineers Without Borders team in Ethiopia. After finishing college, Emily worked as a translator and communications officer with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the year preceding law school.