Working at Coats + Bennett is exciting and allows me to utilize my strengths to help our clients protect their intellectual property!

Emily Haas is an associate in the litigation group at Coats + Bennett. As part of the litigation group, Ms. Haas focuses on cases involving patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets, as well as related issues.

Ms. Haas graduated magna cum laude from Gettysburg College in 2004, majoring in chemistry and computer science and earning departmental honors for both. While at Gettysburg, she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a recipient of the J.B. Zinn Research award, the Baum Mathematical Prize, and the Malcolm R. Dougherty Mathematical Award. Ms. Haas performed her undergraduate research in Resonance Raman Spectroscopy as part of the Wedlock Group with the aid of a Sigma Xi Grants-in-aid-of-Research grant. In 2006, she earned her Masters of Science in chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a member of the Thompson Group and performed research utilizing Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy. She received her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Campbell University, graduating in the top 5% of her class. At Campbell, Ms. Haas was the Coordinating Editor for the Campbell Law Review and a member of Phi Kappa Phi.

Ms. Haas is admitted to practice in the federal district courts for the Eastern District of North Carolina, the Middle District of North Carolina, and the Western District of North Carolina; the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals; the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals; the United States Patent and Trademark Office; and the State of North Carolina.  She is a member of the American Bar Association, where she is a member of the Trademark Litigation Committee, and the Wake County Bar Association, where she serves on the Lawyer’s Support Committee. In her spare time, she studies voice and is active in her church choir.