Emma supervises a large advisory practice where she helps clients with everyday employment issues and more complex legal matters. Her experience in human resources gives her a strong understanding of what clients need, so her advice is always practical and personalised.

She has a professional interest in ACC matters and drug and alcohol testing within the employment context. She also heads the firm’s insurance employment disputes practice.

Emma has significant experience representing both employers and employees in mediation, has undertaken litigation in the Employment Relations Authority, and assisted on cases in the Employment Court and Human Rights Review Tribunal.

Emma regularly presents seminars to clients and the profession, and is invited to speak on panels in respect of both women in law and breast cancer advocacy.

Doyles Rising Star, 2024
NZ Lawyer Elite Women, 2024

Auckland University of Technology, LLB (Hons) (2017)
Te Wānanga O Aotearoa,  Te Ara Reo Māori: He Pī Ka Pao (Level 1 & 2)
Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand
Member, New Zealand Law Society
Member, The Law Association
Deputy Chair, Breast Cancer Aotearoa Coalition
Member, Breast Cancer Trial Consumer Advisory Panel
Chair, Cancer Trials New Zealand

Partner, LangtonHudson, Lawyers 2025 – present
Senior Associate, LangtonHudson, Lawyers, 2022 – 2025
Associate, LangtonHudson, Lawyers, 2017 – 2022
HR Executive, Baldwins Intellectual Property, 2012 – 2017 (HR Manager 2017)

Contentious

• Advising a corporate client about allegations of migrant exploitation.
• Advising on a number of senior executive level exits (acting for both employers and employees).
• Successfully defended interim reinstatement claims in the Employment Relations Authority.
• Successfully defended an employer against a claim for a breach of the non-disparagement clause of a record of settlement.

Non-Contentious

• Advising employers and boards on obligations under the Protected Disclosures (Protection of Whistleblowers) Act 2022.
• Advising clients on transfer of employment issues in business sales and acquisitions.
• Advising Unity Technologies on its purchase of Weta Digital (2021) for USD1.625 billion.
• Submitting to Health Select Committee on access to breast cancer medicines.