Emily Rock, Senior Staff Attorney, [email protected], 860-610-6040

Emily Rock is an attorney who is passionate in her longstanding commitment to social justice work. Prior to joining OCA, she worked at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School as a Clinical Fellow and then Interim Executive Director. Previously, she worked as an attorney at Koskoff, Koskoff, and Bieder, where she litigated cases involving civil rights, election law, medical negligence, and product liability. She successfully represented pro bono clients against state institutions and helped achieve significant verdicts and settlements for clients in tort liabilities cases. Her motion practice included filings with the trial, appellate, and supreme courts at both the state and federal level. In addition, Emily clerked for the Honorable Alvin Thompson of the District of Connecticut. She is a member of the Connecticut Bar. In law school, Emily served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal and student director of the Legal Services for Immigrant Communities Clinic and the Temporary Restraining Order project. Emily interned with the White House Advisor on Violence Against Women as well as the Ohio Justice and Policy Center. Prior to law school, Emily worked as a paralegal at the national office of Planned Parenthood Federation of America in Washington, D.C. She graduated summa cum laude from The Ohio State University, where she earned dual degrees in Political Science and English.