About Emma
Emma Quinn-Judge built a steady legal path between an arts-and-science undergraduate education and two federal clerkships. She graduated from Middlebury College in 1998 and earned her J.D. from Yale Law School in 2005. Those years set the stage for the early choices that shaped her practice.
Straight out of law school she won a district court clerkship. In 2005 she clerked for the Hon. Michael A. Ponsor of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. That year at the trial-court level gave her a close view of motion practice, pretrial strategy and the everyday mechanics of federal litigation. The next year she moved to the appellate bench and clerked for the Hon. Rosemary S. Pooler on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Two consecutive federal clerkships offered contrasting perspectives on factfinding, legal writing and the cadence of appellate review.
In 2007 she joined Zalkind Duncan & Bernstein LLP as a lawyer. Her time at that firm followed the pattern of many lawyers who pair federal clerkships with practice at boutique and regional firms. The role allowed her to apply courtroom experience to client matters and to work alongside litigators handling contested cases.
Quinn-Judge maintains memberships in several professional organizations. She is active in the National Employment Lawyers Association and the Massachusetts Employment Lawyers Association. She also belongs to the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Those affiliations indicate professional engagement across employment disputes and criminal-defense practice areas.
Licensed to practice in Massachusetts, she has spent the bulk of her legal career working in the state. Her courtroom background, clerking experience and firm practice have combined to produce a practitioner comfortable with both trial and appellate settings. Colleagues describe her as steady and precise in legal writing, and she has continued to handle litigation matters that require careful procedural navigation.
Her current work remains anchored in Massachusetts. She handles both employment law matters and criminal-defense issues for clients, bringing the perspective of federal clerkships and firm litigation to those cases. She currently practices at Zalkind Duncan & Bernstein LLP, handling employment and criminal defense matters in Massachusetts.
