Ms. Reilly is a counsel in the firm’s Litigation Department. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, including contract disputes and bankruptcy-related litigation and advice, particularly on behalf of investment banking, financial advisory and asset management clients. She also has significant experience with white collar criminal defense and SEC investigations and enforcement actions. Ms. Reilly maintains an active pro bono practice as well, and she received the 2005 inMotion “Commitment to Justice” award, the 2015 New York Law Journal “Lawyers Who Lead by Example” Pro Bono award, the 2016 Chambers Diversity “Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year” award and the 2019 Sanctuary for Families' “Above & Beyond Pro Bono Achievement Award.”
Ms. Reilly joined the firm in 2001. From 2000 to 2001 she clerked for Justice James H. Coleman, Jr. of the New Jersey Supreme Court. Ms. Reilly received a J.D. with honors from Rutgers Law School in Newark in 2000, where she was a Marsha Wenk fellow, a managing editor of the Rutgers Law Review and a recipient of the Alumni Senior Prize. She received her undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Douglass College, Rutgers University in 1997.
Ms. Reilly is a member of the Bars of New York and New Jersey and is admitted to practice before the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the District of New Jersey and the Second and Third Circuit Courts of Appeals.