Emma Gilmore Honored as an Elite Woman of the Plaintiffs’ Bar

Pomerantz is proud to announce that partner Emma Gilmore has been recognized by the National Law Journal as an Elite Woman of the Plaintiffs’ Bar in 2021 — an award given to only 11 “women lawyers who have consistently excelled in high-stakes matters on behalf of plaintiffs over the course of their careers.” Emma is one of only two women in the field of securities litigation who were so honored this year.

In 2020, Emma was named by Benchmark Litigation as one of the Top 250 Women in Litigation — an honor bestowed on only seven plaintiffs’ lawyers in the U.S. that year. Both the National Law Journal and the New York Law Journal honored her as a 2020 Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Trailblazer. In 2018, Law360 honored Emma as an MVP in Securities Litigation, recognition reserved for an “elite slate of attorneys [who] have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.” Only up to six attorneys nationwide are selected each year as MVPs in Securities Litigation. Emma was the first woman plaintiffs’ attorney to receive this outstanding award since it was initiated in 2011. Emma has been honored as a Super Lawyer® every year since 2018, and she has been recognized by Lawdragon as one of the top 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers.

Emma, alongside Managing Partner Jeremy Lieberman, led Pomerantz’s high-profile securities class action against Petrobras, Brazil’s state-run oil giant. Pomerantz achieved the largest class action settlement in a decade: $3 billion. It is also the largest settlement ever involving a foreign issuer, the largest class action settlement in history not involving a restatement of financial reports, and the fifth largest class action settlement ever achieved in the United States.