About Emily Hickman

Emily Hickman is an attorney at Brent Adams & Associates in North Carolina, where she represents personal injury clients.

Before law school, Hickman worked at the Campaign Legal Center in Washington, DC, focusing on redistricting and campaign finance reform. She also held positions at Pfizer's lobbying office in DC and at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh as an election assistant.

She earned her Juris Doctorate from Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School. As a law student, she served as a law clerk at the Sinas Dramis law firm in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and completed an externship with Judge Curt Benson at the 17th Circuit Court.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Brent Adams & Associates

These results are credited to Brent Adams & Associates. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A Johnston County jury awarded $3.41 million to the estate of Clinton Massengill, a 23-year-old from Four Oaks who died nine days after being struck without warning at Club Riptide in Selma, falling and hitting his head on the concrete floor.

Johnston County Superior Court, NC · 2015Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$2 millionVerdict

A Cumberland County jury awarded $2 million to John Cain, a 73-year-old shopper whose neck was permanently destabilized when multiple 50-pound bags of dog food toppled from a seven-foot-high Walmart display in Hope Mills, North Carolina.

Cumberland County Superior Court, NC · 2020Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

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Proven verdicts and settlements from other Raleigh firms

Maginnis Howard Personal Injury Lawyer
Maginnis Howard Personal Injury Lawyer
$8.62 Million Settlement After Former UNC Student Drove Wrong-Way on I-85, Killing Three
Whitley Law Firm Injury Lawyers
Whitley Law Firm Injury Lawyers
$4 million · Ironworker Paralyzed When Mall Demolition Overhang Gave Way Settles for $4 Million
Hardison & Cochran
Hardison & Cochran
$3.5 million · Paralyzed Tree Cutter Wins $3.5 Million From Insurers After Employee Status Ruling
Henson Fuerst, Attorneys at Law
Henson Fuerst, Attorneys at Law
$40 million · Henson Fuerst Wins Record $40 Million Drunk Driving Verdict
Martin & Jones
Martin & Jones
$31 Million Settlement After Two-Point Lap Belt Paralyzed an 11-Year-Old in a Ford Escort

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.