Benesch welcomes partner Emily Newhouse Dillingham to the firm’s Litigation Practice Group. She is based in Chicago and comes to the firm from Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP.
Dillingham represents clients in complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on consumer fraud, false advertising, and trade secret misappropriation. She has experience with all phases of litigation, including successfully representing clients at trial, authoring and arguing dispositive motions and appeals, taking and defending depositions, and managing all stages of the discovery process.
Additionally, Dillingham serves as an adjunct professor at Northwestern University School of Law. She clerked for the Honorable Robert W. Gettleman in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois from 2006-2008.
“Emily is a strong addition to our litigation team,” said Gregg Eisenberg, Managing Partner and Executive Committee Member. “Her readiness to take complex matters to trial when necessary deepens the bench of talent we have available to serve businesses dealing with the most complex commercial disputes.”
In recent notable matters, Dillingham represented auto industry manufacturers in multiple federal cases involving trade secret misappropriation and state law claims and a pharmaceutical manufacturer in nationwide federal and state litigation regarding allegations of fraudulent marketing. She also successfully argued before the Fourth Circuit that the government’s recission of DACA was unlawful, resulting in the country’s only favorable ruling on the merits of a DACA lawsuit at the appellate level.
Dillingham graduated cum laude from the Northwestern University School of Law where she served as the Membership Editor of the Northwestern University Law Review, and with distinction from the University of Virginia.
She joins a Litigation practice rapidly making a name for itself in high-profile matters. In addition to national trial work, the team actively pursues cost-effective outcomes for multinational, publicly held and private companies, for-profit and non-profit boards, municipalities as well as other government entities, lenders, insurers and individuals in alternative dispute resolution forums.
The firm overall has also earned recognition. Nationally, since making its debut on the AmLaw 200 list in 2016, Benesch has advanced 27 places and is currently ranked at number 168.
