Emily Kaas-Mansfield

Emily Kaas-Mansfield, an associate attorney, practices in the areas of personal injury and criminal defense. Emily is well respected and trusted in her representation of clients in state and federal courts, honing the comprehensive legal and advocacy skills she developed in her nearly four years serving as a Judicial Law Clerk in state and federal trial and appellate courts.

Emily handles a broad array of civil matters in state and federal court, including personal injury, motor vehicle accidents, and slip and fall cases.

Emily has vast experience in the criminal courts, and has handled hundreds of cases involving fraud, sexual assault, DUI, possession and sale of narcotics, firearms offenses, kidnapping, robbery, and murder. She has represented defendants in state and federal courts and has tried a number of cases to verdict as associate counsel including murder and large-scale, international drug conspiracy.

Emily also has experience on post-conviction matters, including appeals before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the Connecticut Appellate and Supreme Courts, habeas matters, sentence modifications, commutations, and pardons. Emily is also an active member of the District of Connecticut’s Criminal Justice Act (CJA) panel.

Emily has been recognized by her peers as a Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2022, 2023, and 2024. She is a part-time professor at Quinnipiac University School of Law where she teaches a “Foundations of Practice” first-year course. She also presently serves on the board of Connecticut Star, a non-profit organization created to provide financial assistance for Support Court, a program developed in the Connecticut federal courts to aid defendants who are struggling with drug and alcohol addiction.

Emily graduated summa cum laude from Quinnipiac University School of Law in 2016. She was fourth in her class and served as Notes Editor of the Quinnipiac Law Review, and president of the Society for Dispute Resolution and the Public Interest Law Project. After graduation, Emily had the unique experience of being selected to clerk for judges in both state and federal courts. She clerked for Judges Thomas A. Bishop and Thomas G. West at the Connecticut Appellate Court from 2016 to 2017. She next served as a Law Clerk for then-Chief Judge Stefan R. Underhill of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut from 2017 to 2019 and then for Judge Christopher F. Droney of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2019).

Emily grew up in Connecticut and received her undergraduate degree with honors from St. Michael’s College where she also served as captain of her swim team. She currently resides in Northford with her husband and son.