Emily B. Read
Project Director, Equal Employment Opportunity Project
Emily Read joined the Committee in 2009 as EEO Staff Attorney and in 2011 became the Project Director of the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Project. Her practice focuses on discrimination, wage and hour, and family and medical leave act litigation in the private and federal sectors, including individual and class actions in state and federal courts.
Prior to joining the Committee, Ms. Read was an associate at Bernabei & Watchtel, PLLC, a premier plaintiffs’ employment litigation firm, where she represented employees in state and federal courts. At Bernabei & Wachtel, Ms. Read litigated race, gender and disability discrimination, sexual harassment, whistleblower and contract dispute matters.
Before going into private practice, Ms. Read was a Staff Attorney and Teaching Fellow at the Institute for Public Representation (IPR), a civil rights litigation clinical program at Georgetown University Law Center. At IPR, Ms. Read litigated discrimination and other civil rights matters. As part of her fellowship, Ms. Read spent a semester as a visiting Staff Attorney at the University of the District of Columbia in the David A. Clarke School of Law Juvenile and Special Education Law Clinic, where she represented children and families in special education and public benefits administrative hearings.
Ms. Read was also previously a Patients' Rights Advocate at the Mental Health Advocacy Project in San Jose, California, where she represented clients in civil commitment and involuntary medication hearings, as well as in disability discrimination, access to health care, conditions of confinement, public benefits, and housing matters.
Education
- LLM, with honors, Georgetown University Law Center
- JD, Northeastern University School of Law
- BA, Cornell University
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
- U.S. District Court, District of Maryland
Professional/Community Activities
- Member, American Bar Association Labor & Employment Law Section
- Member, National Employment Lawyers Association
- Member, Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association
- Member of the Steering Committee, D.C. Bar Labor and Employment Law Section