Emily B. Goldberg is a civil rights attorney with more than two decades of experience in civil rights and constitutional litigation. She is Special Counsel at Manes & Weinberg, LLC, where she enforces anti-discrimination laws to protect students’ rights, assists students who are victims of bullying or accused of bullying, and advocates for the rights of students with disabilities.

From 2022 to 2025, Emily served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey. She managed a broad civil rights docket involving educational equity, disability access, policing and prison conditions, housing discrimination, and employment bias. She also led investigations of internal Title VII complaints and spearheaded community outreach around education-based bias incidents implicating Title IV and Title VI issues.

A recognized leader in community-based special education advocacy, Emily founded and leads a group of more than 450 parents/caregivers of children with ADHD. She has helped secure equitable services for students with disabilities, remove discriminatory curriculum elements, and develop an affirmative compensatory education program for students disproportionately affected by COVID school closures.

Previously, Emily served as Pro Bono Counsel at Paul, Weiss, where she directed a nationally recognized, innovative pro bono program responding to national civil rights crises. Her work included securing emergency relief preventing the deportation of a class of Indonesian Christians and helping lead a multi-firm legal response to the Family Separation Crisis. She also co-led a Federal Tort Claims Act damages initiative for separated families, resulting in nearly $200 million in settlements.

Earlier in her career, Emily served as Pro Bono Director/Special Counsel at McCarter & English, Visiting clinical professor at Seton Hall Law School, a Gibbons Fellow with Gibbons P.C., and clerked in the SDNY. Her work has been recognized with numerous distinctions, including commendations from the U.S. Department of Justice, the ACLU-NJ Legal Leadership Award, the New Jersey Law Journal Unsung Hero Award, NJ Biz’s “Best 50 Women in Business,” and the Garden State Equality Pillar of Progress Prize.

Emily earned her J.D. from NYU School of Law and her B.A. from Tufts University, both with honors.