About Emilie A.
Emilie A. Swan is an attorney practicing in Pennsylvania who balances courtroom work and client counsel. She earned her J.D. from Duquesne University in 2017 after completing a B.A. at Gannon University in 2014. Those years set the groundwork for a practice rooted in state and federal procedure rather than one tied to a single specialty.
Her legal education at Duquesne provided exposure to civil litigation, evidence and trial advocacy. While at Gannon she pursued a liberal arts curriculum that preceded law school. The sequence of degrees—B.A. in 2014, J.D. in 2017—places her among a cadre of lawyers who entered practice in the late 2010s and have since been building litigation experience.
Swan is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and is also admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. She holds current membership in the Pennsylvania State Bar. She joined the Erie County Bar Association in 2019 and maintains that local membership alongside her statewide bar activities.
In her professional life she serves as an associate at MacDonald, Illig, Jones & Britton. In that role she handles filings, prepares pleadings and appears in court proceedings. Her file work includes drafting memoranda and motion practice, and she works with more senior attorneys on trial preparation. The firm setting has given her regular exposure to both state-court dockets and federal filings in the Western District.
Colleagues describe her as methodical in preparing case materials and attentive to procedural requirements. She has developed experience responding to discovery, handling depositions and briefing dispositive motions. Those tasks reflect a day-to-day litigation practice rather than transactional or regulatory work.
Her membership in local and state bar organizations has kept her connected to regional legal developments since 2019. Participation in those groups also supports ongoing professional education and networking with other lawyers across practice areas.
As a practicing attorney in 2026, Emilie Swan continues to work at MacDonald, Illig, Jones & Britton and manages matters arising in Pennsylvania state courts and in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Her current practice consists of handling matters in Pennsylvania state and federal courts.
