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About Emily Lagan
Emily C. Lagan is an attorney at Regan Zambri Long representing victims of catastrophic injuries and families in wrongful death cases. Since joining the firm in 2018, she has handled cases involving gas explosions, medical malpractice, car and pedestrian accidents, and defective products. Emily brings focused attention to detail to every case, serving as a devoted advocate from intake through verdict or settlement. Before joining the firm, Emily worked at Wake Forest University as a legal writing teaching assistant and served as Chief Justice of the Moot Court Board.
Her Moot Court team placed second in their region at the National Moot Court Competition, and their brief earned a top-ten score among law schools nationwide. She is a member of the Order of Barristers and serves on the Board of Directors of the Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia, where she has co-chaired the New Lawyers Division and the Young Lawyers Committee. She has been named to DC Rising Stars by Super Lawyers since 2021 and is rated as a One to Watch by Best Lawyers in 2026. Emily is licensed in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Regan Zambri Long Personal Injury Lawyers
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Thomas Hoar suffered disabling brain damage on January 19, 1992, when he slid off the edge of the Diamond Jim ski trail at Massanutten Ski Resort and fell about thirty feet. A jury found the resort negligent for failing to warn skiers of the hidden drop-off and returned $6,170,563 for his wife and guardian. The trial judge set the verdict aside, but the Supreme Court of Virginia reinstated it on November 6, 1998 and entered final judgment for the plaintiff.
In 2012 a McKesson Corporation employee rear-ended Roger Tovar's stopped car, leaving the information technology security professional with a traumatic brain injury that ended his career. A D.C. Superior Court jury awarded $500,000 for bodily injury and $3,297,573 in lost wages in June 2018. McKesson appealed and then settled for the full jury award.
Carol W. Scott, then 79, broke her femur on September 23, 2019 when an Orange Line train jerked forward after announcing that its doors were opening at McPherson Square. A federal jury in Washington found the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority negligent after a three-day trial in April 2025 and awarded $1.6 million. The judge refused to disturb the verdict, and the transit authority's appeal was dismissed by stipulation.
Patrick Regan co-represented widow Kathy Wone in a $20 million wrongful death suit against three defendants acquitted of obstruction charges in the 2006 murder of Washington attorney Robert Wone, reaching a confidential settlement in August 2011.
Regan Zambri Long PLLC, co-counsel with two other Washington firms, secured a confidential settlement in November 2019 for more than 70 victims of the August 2016 natural gas explosion that destroyed two Silver Spring apartment buildings, killed seven residents, and sent dozens more to the hospital.
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