Emilie K. Elliott
Attorney Biography
With years of experience working for large law firms in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo, CA, as well as operating her own law practice in Arroyo Grande, CA for several years, Emilie Elliott joined Pierce Davis & Perritano in February of 2026.
Emilie has extensive experience in employment law, antitrust and unfair competition, business and entertainment contracts and litigation, healthcare law, intellectual property protection and litigation and real estate transactions. She has also performed workplace investigations for many businesses and public entities throughout the Central Coast, and is available to perform workplace investigations remotely for businesses outside the area.
Practice Areas
- Corporate and Business Transactions
- Employment Law
- Workplace Investigations
- Industrial Health and Safety
- Intellectual Property
- Litigation
- Real Estate, Real Property, and Land Use
- Asbestos Defense Litigation
Emilie earned her Bachelors of Science in Psychobiology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her J.D. from the University of Southern California. While in law school, she earned the Peter J. Knecht Award for Excellence in Copyright, Contract and Entertainment Law and was the production editor of the Review of Law and Women’s Studies Journal. She also participated in the Post-Conviction Justice Project and earned the top grade in her class in both civil procedure and copyright law.
She has been a member of the California Bar since 2005 and became a member of the Patent Bar in 2004 while still in law school. In 2024, she became an Association of Workplace Investigators Certificate Holder, which is a prestigious, ANAB-accredited designation for individuals who perform investigations in the workplace.
Emilie also has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Creighton University, where she graduated number one in her class.
Emilie currently resides in Arroyo Grande, CA with her three children and her fur baby, Bubbles. Emilie has served on the board of directors of CASA of San Luis Obispo County and the Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo. In her spare time, she enjoys yoga and pilates, meditating, running and snowboarding, spending time with her fiancé, and cheering her kids on from the sidelines at their many activities.
Attorney Experience
Representative Matters
Association Memberships
- American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Law Section
- San Luis Obispo County Bar Association
- American Association of Nurse Attorneys – Former Member
- California Board of Registered Nursing – Former Member
Attorney News
Publications
Speaking Engagements
Our Experience
PDP has represented defendants in the asbestos litigation for more than two decades and we are intimately familiar with all aspects of these claims. We are conversant with the workings of the consolidated asbestos dockets in each of the states in which we practice and frequently act as lead counsel.
We are proficient at utilizing a variety of strategies, procedural motions, and other tactics to secure dismissals, favorable settlements, and positive results at trial. We take full advantage of the opportunities presented during discovery depositions to explore the potential product identification testimony against our clients, to elicit limiting testimony, and to develop any inconsistencies between the witness’ testimony and the actual properties and components of our clients’ products. We also consistently look for novel or unique issues in individual cases which present the opportunity to limit or foreclose a client’s liability. We remain at the forefront of the asbestos litigation and are confident that our tremendous knowledge and experience make us an invaluable resource to our clients.
We have amassed significant knowledge, documents and other materials necessary to bolster applicable defenses on a case-by-case basis. Our extensive library used to neutralize plaintiffs’ expert testimony includes state-of-the-art materials, impeachment documents, false or contradictory affidavits, numerous transcripts of past deposition and trial testimony, and detailed and extensive cross examination outlines. These materials are retained and re-shaped for use by our attorneys across a broad spectrum of future cases, which results in significant cost benefits by avoiding unnecessary duplication.
We have a deep understanding of the legal and factual issues at stake in the ever-changing asbestos litigation environment, and have pressed many of them in the appropriate cases, including:
- State-of-the-art knowledge regarding the hazards of asbestos
- Learned intermediary and sophisticated user doctrines
- Component part manufacturer liability
- Post-sale duty to warn
- Government contractor defense
- Expert challenges
Our firm has actively represented clients and prepared for trial in many of these cases, and we were present for a portion of the trial in most of them. That experience has only strengthened the depth of pre-trial and trial experience which our attorneys already bring to the table. Our experience puts our firm in an advantageous position within the context of the asbestos litigation because we can staff multiple cases (or multiple clients within one case) with local attorneys who have recent and relevant experience in defending these cases at trial.
Our knowledge of pertinent issues and our representation of multiple defendants allows us to share resources and split costs, which makes us efficient and economical. Our experience in, and understanding of, the asbestos personal injury litigation uniquely positions us to provide for the efficient, effective representation and defense of your claims. We are glad to provide additional detail on our experience.
In addition to claims involving asbestos exposure, PDP has defended clients in a number of toxic exposure claims arising from exposure to a wide variety of potential toxins. Damages include claims for various cancers, fear of cancer, infertility, emotional distress, medical monitoring and toxic encephalopathy. We have also defended claims involving allegations of “Multiple Chemical Sensitivity” allegedly caused by exposure to a variety of chemicals.
The existence of an injury, the cause of the injury, and the source of the cause are almost always in dispute in a toxic exposure case. We work closely with experts to develop medical causation defenses, which have proven highly effective in resisting toxic exposure claims.
Early, aggressive, and intensive discovery and case evaluation are essential in toxic exposure cases. Through the use of discovery and pretrial and trial motions, we have successfully challenged expert testimony and have secured limitation on adverse evidence. We are uniquely situated to handle these multi-party, document intensive cases because we have developed methods for handling large scale document review and production which have proved to be cost effective for our clients.