Described as thorough and efficient, Emilia Garanzuay excels at taking complex legal issues and distilling them down to their essential components. Rather than viewing her practice through a single lens, she draws on her varied experience to spot patterns and make connections that help illuminate even the most layered construction disputes. From there, she supports the team in building comprehensive solutions that clients seek.
Emilia’s path to law included earning a sociology degree from UT Austin and gaining meaningful paralegal experience before she pursued her J.D. at St. Mary’s University School of Law. While at St. Mary’s, she honed her legal writing and research skills as a Staff Writer and later as Associate Editor on The Scholar: St. Mary’s Law Review on Race and Social Justice.
Fueled by the investigative aspects of her work, Emilia seamlessly switches gears between different matters while maintaining the same analytical precision on each one, whether representing design professionals and contractors or serving the firm’s broader clientele. She has embraced the firm’s standard of doing a Damn Fine Job as her own, ensuring no stone is left unturned. Though Emilia prefers to let her careful work make the case, when she shares her perspective, clients and colleagues lean in, knowing she’ll cut straight to the heart of whatever tangled matter needs unraveling.
Outside the office, you’ll find her exploring local coffee shops and bookstores – a habit she picked up during her law school days. She is an avid reader and a fan of horror films and documentaries, interests that satisfy her love for problem-solving even outside the legal realm. Most of all, she loves spending time with her wife and their two dogs.
