Emily A. Stubbs, whose practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, has been elected a partner of Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP, effective January 1, 2007. Ms. Stubbs' recent matters have included representation of a major pharmaceutical company in negotiations and litigation arising from licensing, distribution and co-promotion agreements; a software developer in an arbitration concerning the earnout provisions of an asset purchase agreement; a prominent research university in employment discrimination matters; directors and officers in securities actions; and a major investment bank in a contract dispute with a former client. She also has represented individuals and corporations in a variety of breach of fiduciary duty actions.

Ms. Stubbs graduated with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa from Swarthmore College in 1992 and received her law degree in 1998 from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. At Boalt Hall, she was the recipient of an American Jurisprudence Award and the Prosser Prize, as well as a Staff Editor of the Berkeley Women's Law Journal and an Associate Editor of the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law. Ms. Stubbs is the author of Recent Developments: Welfare and Immigration Reform: Refusing Aid to Immigrants, 12 Berkeley Women's L.J. 151 (1997). Before joining FKSA, Ms. Stubbs was a National Association for Public Interest Law Equal Justice Fellow with South Brooklyn Legal Services and served as a law clerk to The Honorable Robert P. Patterson, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She is a member of the Federal Bar Council Inn of Court.