Before co-founding Hoppin Grinsell, Margot practiced at Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP and Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, where she represented clients in a wide variety of complex commercial disputes. Her clients have included major corporations, financial institutions, and insurers in multi-billion dollar disputes related to insurance coverage, debt restructuring transactions, corporate mergers, and securities and other complex financial products. She has authored multiple amicus briefs, including in the U.S. Supreme Court, related to disability and voting rights, criminal sentencing, and government regulation of emerging technologies, and has represented hundreds of low-income clients in criminal, civil, and immigration matters. Margot graduated with honors from NYU School of Law, where she was an Articles Editor on the NYU Law Review, a Guarini government scholar, and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Margot currently serves on the NYU School of Law Board of Trustees.

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