Attorney Profiles

Eun Chong (EJ) Thorsen esq.
ASSOCIATE

Email at eJo@vmmlegal.com

Eun Chong (EJ) Thorsen is an associate in the Litigation Practice Group, concentrating her practice in the areas of commercial and employment litigation, estate litigation and matrimonial and family law litigation.

Her experience includes representing individuals and business in both Federal and State trial courts and before arbitration tribunals, with respect to contract, partnership, wage and hour, discrimination and other business and employment-related disputes. In the area of wills and estates, EJ's background includes will contests, both for and against the probate of the Last Will and Testament, and other surrogate's court-related matters and proceedings. EJ also has experience working with both straight and LGBT individuals and couples on family and matrimonial law matters.

An advocate of marriage equality, EJ is a producer for the award-winning short documentary entitled Left Out in America: Legislative Love, Life and LGBT (2010) concerning the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996.

EJ is a member of the Queens and Nassau County Bar Associations, and has written articles for the Nassau Lawyer. Of South Korean descent, she is a member of the Korean American Lawyers Association of Greater New York (KALAGNY) and the International Association of Korean Lawyers (IAKL).

EJ served as a judicial intern with the Honorable Joseph F. Bianco of the Eastern District of New York and the Honorable Patricia P. Satterfield of the Queens County Supreme Court. She received her Juris Doctorate from St. John's University School of Law in 2008, where she served as the managing Editor of the New York International Law Review, a publication of the International Law and Practice Section of the New York State Bar Association. EJ received her Bachelors Degree from Boston College in 2005.

She joined the firm in 2007 as a law clerk and is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, the United States District Courts in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.