Emily Van Dyne is an associate attorney with Eisner Dictor & Lamadrid, P.C. Since joining the firm, Emily has been involved in numerous labor and employment matters. She has represented unions in collective bargaining and in proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board, as well as individual workers in litigation relating to workplace issues such as wage theft and discrimination.

Prior to joining Eisner Dictor & Lamadrid, P.C., Emily was a Robert B. Kent Public Interest Fellow with the employment practice at Brooklyn Defender Services, advocating for clients facing employment discrimination in the wake of an arrest or incarceration. As a fellow, Emily brought discrimination complaints before the NYC Commission on Human Rights and pursued wage-and-hour claims at the NY State and Federal Departments of Labor. She also represented individual clients in administrative hearings and appeals.

Emily is a graduate of Cornell Law School, where she represented immigrant workers as a Student Attorney with the Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic and received recognition for her work in support of community justice organizations with the Movement Lawyering Practicum. While in law school, Emily worked as a teaching assistant for undergraduate and graduate labor law courses at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and was a general editor of the International Law Journal. She also served as co-president of the National Lawyers Guild, co-director of the Law and Political Economy collective, and co-chair of the Student Leadership Council. Emily is the recipient of the Cornell Law School Stanley E. Gould award for dedication to public interest law and the Robert S. Pasley prize for “scholarship in both the law and the arts, classics, or humanities.”

Prior to law school, Emily worked in restaurants and other service industry jobs for nearly a decade while pursuing her undergraduate education. She received a BA in Literature from Hunter College at the City University of New York, graduating magna cum laude.

Education:
JD, Cornell Law School
BA, Hunter College (CUNY)

Admissions:
New York State Bar