Our Team
Clayton L. Bailey
Clayton has accumulated extensive experience in federal district court, often in first-of-its-kind litigation. As a result, Clayton has learned to be adaptable, keeping case strategy up-to-date with the changing circumstances customary of complex litigation.
As a trial attorney with the Department of Justice Federal Programs Branch, he defended Biden Administration policies on behalf of more than a dozen federal agencies and the White House. His cases often involved novel issues of constitutional and administrative law, and included multiple high-profile challenges to federal employment practices.
Before that, Clayton was a litigator at Covington & Burling LLP, where he developed a focus on trial work and expert testimony. During that time, he represented a class of Virginia prisoners challenging solitary confinement conditions. He also represented voting rights groups defending the results of the 2020 Presidential Election in Pennsylvania.
Originally from Louisville, KY, Clayton began his legal career in DC due in part to a long-held respect for the U.S. government and its ability to improve the lives of people across the country (and beyond). The Civil Service Law Center represents, first and foremost, a defense of the many federal workers who feel the same way.
Education:
B.S., University of Kentucky
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law
Bar Admissions:
District of Columbia
Virginia
Emmy Wydman
Emmy is a public interest attorney dedicated to fighting on behalf of the "Davids"—the workers, consumers, and everyday people—wronged by the "Goliaths"—corporations, the government, and other powerful institutions.
Before joining the Civil Service Law Center in 2026, Emmy was an associate at a nationally recognized public interest plaintiffs’ firm. Her cases included class actions seeking to hold corporations accountable for the community devastation resulting from the largest taxpayer-funded fraud in a state’s history and the consequences of the 2022 infant formula shortage, as well as enforcement actions on behalf of various state attorneys general.
One of her proudest accomplishments of her career to date was serving on the team that represented Harvard professors and graduate students in their successful action against the Trump administration’s freeze of over $2 billion of the university’s federal grant funding, securing sweeping victories on both Title VI and First Amendment grounds—including the full return of the researchers’ grant money. She also previously litigated pro bono appeals, prevailing on an ex post facto challenge to an unconstitutional restitution regime.
Outside of her litigation practice, Emmy is deeply committed to movement organizing and community involvement, and is actively engaged with her alma maters.
Emmy is thrilled to join CSLC and to extend her dedication to democracy to vindicating the rights of federal workers.
Education:
B.S., The Ohio State University
J.D., Duke University School of Law
Clerkships:
Judge R. Guy Cole Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Chief Judge Algenon L. Marbley, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
Bar Admissions:
District of Columbia