Emily Hubbard

Before becoming a lawyer, I spent years working long shifts for short pay just like my clients do. I didn’t leave that world behind – now, I fight for the people still living it. Big companies bet that the little guy will fold the first time someone says ‘you can’t win this.’ But I’m not afraid of hard work — I dig in. What they call a dead end, I call a wall that hasn’t been knocked down yet.

Emily Hubbard is an Attorney at Biller & Kimble, LLC, where she focuses on wage and hour class and collective actions on behalf of workers who have been shorted overtime, underpaid, or misclassified by their employers. She joined the firm in 2020 and has since become one of the firm’s most effective litigators in a notoriously difficult corner of employment law: defeating employers’ efforts to force workers out of court and into arbitration. Emily has also recovered on behalf of her clients in over 100 individual claims subject to valid arbitration agreements. So, whether in court or in arbitration, Emily puts in the work for her clients and gets results.

Emily has built a reputation for taking on arbitration clauses that most firms would treat as a dead end — and winning. She prevailed against an effort to compel arbitration where the worker denied signing the agreement in West v. Bam! Pizza Management, Inc. (D.N.M., No. 2:23-cv-00209), successfully argued in Brandi-Van Meter v. MP2 Enterprises (D. Utah, No. 4:23-cv-00081) that a franchisee could not enforce an arbitration agreement that ran between the employee and the franchisor, and prevailed in Myers v. Papa Texas (D.N.M., No. 2:23-cv-01096) in confirming that an employer who defaults cannot later turn around and enforce arbitration — a win that the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed on appeal. In Bradford v. Team Pizza, Inc. (S.D. Ohio, No. 1:20-cv-00060), she defeated a motion to compel arbitration filed years after litigation had already begun. Together, these results have made Emily a go-to attorney for dismantling arbitration defenses that employers count on to keep workers’ claims out of the courtroom entirely.

Emily is a lifelong Cincinnatian who enjoys travel, hiking, and golfing with her friends and family. She has a taste for adventure and a love for animals. She lives in Northern Kentucky with her husband, two little boys, and a host of animals.

Approach

Before becoming a lawyer, Emily spent a decade working low-wage and tipped jobs, spending over a decade bartending and waiting tables in restaurants. That experience shapes how she practices law today. Emily doesn’t see her clients as case files; she sees them as the coworkers she used to clock in beside. She believes the best advocacy comes from actually understanding what it feels like to have your paycheck shorted or your hours manipulated, and she brings that firsthand perspective to every case she handles — building cases the way someone builds a case for people she considers her own.

Practice Focus

Wage and hour class and collective actions · Overtime claims · Overtime-exempt misclassification · Employment arbitration

Admissions & Education

Kentucky, Ohio, federal courts for the Southern and Northern Districts of Ohio, the Eastern District of Kentucky, the Western and Eastern Districts of Michigan, the District of Colorado, and the Sixth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits. Emily received her J.D. from Salmon P. Chase College of Law and her B.A. from Northern Kentucky University.